Text Publishing
Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction.Company background
Text was founded in Melbourne in the early 1990s by Diana Gribble and Eric Beecher. When parent company Text Media was taken over by Fairfax Media in 2004, Michael Heyward and his wife Penny Heuston entered into a joint venture with Scottish publisher Canongate.
Maureen and Tony Wheeler, founders of Lonely Planet, bought Canongate's share in Text in 2011. As of August, 2017, Heyward was the publisher/CEO.Publishing
In 2012, Text launched a series of Australian classics, republishing out of print works that had been, for the most part, lost to literary history.
