The rise of publishing: 1. After the War -- 2. Sixties Larrikins -- 3. New wave seventies -- 4. Into the global era -- 5. Bookfutures; Book Business: 6. Writers -- 7. Editing, design and production -- 8. The retail book trade; Reaching readers 9. Beyond
bestsellers -- 10. For children and young adults -- 11. Educational and reference publishing -- 12. Readers and reading.
Explores Australian book production and consumption from 1946 to the present day. In the immediate postwar era, most books were imported into a colonial market dominated by British publishers.
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