tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36622997.post7531509727881279077..comments2024-03-14T04:35:06.209+13:00Comments on Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial homepage of the New Zealand book community: Beattie's Book Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01505389626725979100noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36622997.post-15450710697184384722009-12-18T16:08:57.847+13:002009-12-18T16:08:57.847+13:00Congratulations to Harper Collins.This is great ne...Congratulations to Harper Collins.This is great news for the NZ retail book trade and for all NZ bookbuyers.<br />Two major publishing houses now supply NZ out of their Australian warehouses and both notified us that the last day for orders to be supplied before Xmas was 15th of December.<br />So we are back in the dark ages so far as speed of delivery from these publishers.<br />We anticipate being able to place orders with Random and Harper Collins [both of whom still have NZ warehouses] up until next Tuesday and still get deliveries before Xmas.<br />Both the NZ publishers with Australian warehouses are significant publishers of NZ books and you can see the bewilderment on customer's faces when we explain that their order for a NZ book could take up to 9 days to get here because it is coming from Australia.Bookseller.noreply@blogger.com