David Rosenberg has recently passed away after a lifetime spent in publishing.
He founded Kangaroo Press in 1981, which he and his wife Scilla managed for 20 years until it was sold to Simon and Schuster. He then founded Rosenberg Publishing in 2002, which specialized in non-fiction and his range of titles is enormous
David was able to use his knowledge of desktop publishing and IT skills to produce non-fiction books, with full colour images, at a cost which the major publishers could not match. I owe my career as a writer to David’s recognition of the worth of my first book, Spice Islands back in 2010, and along with most of my other titles it went into multiple print runs. Altogether, David published five of my books:
Spice Islands – The history, romance and adventure of the spice trade over 2000 years, in 2010.
East Indies – The 200 year struggle between the Portuguese Crown, the Dutch East India Company and the English East India Company for Supremacy in the Eastern Seas, in 2013.
Archipelago – A Journey Across Indonesia, in 2015.
Where Australia Collides with Asia – The Voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the Origin of On the Origin of Species, 2017
The Tasman Map, the Biography of a Map – Abel Tasman, the Dutch East India Company and the first Dutch discoveries of Australia, in 2019
Unfortunately, David had been ill for a number of years, but he was very proud to be awarded an Order of Australia – For Service to Publishing in 2021
Thankyou David for your service to publishing and your service to the many non-fiction writers whose work you brought into the world.
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