New South Wales

Publishers in New South Wales means the trade houses with offices in Sydney and the distribution that follows from them. The state carries the country's largest concentration of commercial publishing, and the two names filed here, HarperCollins Publishers and Simon & Schuster, are general-interest houses rather than specialists. Readers who want a Sydney publisher usually want exactly this: fiction and nonfiction that reaches bookshops nationwide.

HarperCollins Publishers and Simon & Schuster both sit under this tag, and both are large trade houses with deep backlists rather than small regional presses. That separates New South Wales from Victoria and Queensland, where the publishing scene leans toward independent and university-linked imprints, and from England, Scotland and Wales, where the same two companies operate under different national structures. What the pair share is reach: a reader in Sydney can find their titles in most bookshops, which is not true of every house featured here.