Title Paper empires : a history of the book in Australia, 1946-2005 / edited by Craig Munro & Robyn Sheahan-Bright

Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 433 pages) : illustrations Series A history of the book in Australia History of the book in Australia. Contents The rise of publishing. After the war / Craig Munro and John Curtain -- Anglo-Australian relations in the book trade / Brigid Magner -- Flagship Angus & Robertson / George Ferguson with Neil James -- A & R's takeover crisis / Craig Munro -- Andrew Fabinyi and Cheshire / John McLaren -- Frank Eyre and Oxford University Press / David Cunningham -- They're a weird mob and Ure Smith / David Carter -- Sixties Larrikins / Frank Thompson -- Jacaranda Press and Brian Clouston / Gregory Blaxell -- Lansdowne and Lloyd O'Neil / John Currey -- Rigby Limited / Michael Page -- Sun Books / John Arnold -- Packer Publications / Bridget Griffen-Foley -- Horwitz / Anthony May -- New wave seventies / Jim Hart -- The new A & R / Richard Walsh -- Inner-urban and Outback / Morry Schwartz -- Currency Press / Katharine Brisbane -- UQP / Frank Thompson -- Fremantle Arts Centre Press / Ron Blaber -- DW Thorpe and the book trade / Joyce Thorpe Nicholson -- Into the global era / Michael Webster -- 2001 publishing report card / Craig Munro -- Thirty years on / Robert Sessions -- Allen & Unwin / Louise Poland -- Lonely Planet / Tony Wheeler -- McPhee Gribble / Diana Gribble -- Magabala Books / Diana Giese -- Text publishing / Anne Galligan -- Bookfutures / Richard Walsh -- Content streaming / Simone Murray -- Publishers On-line / Anne Galligan -- Copyright and electronic text / Leanne Wiseman Book business. Writers / Robyn Sheahan-Bright and Craig Munro -- Writer centres / Robyn Sheahan-Bright -- Indigenous writers / Craig Munro -- Festival big top / Ruth Starke -- National Book Council / Thomas Shapcott -- The Australians/Vogel Literary Award / Tess Brady -- Literature and the state / Stuart Glover -- Editing, design and production / Craig Munro -- Beatrice Davis / Jacqueline Kent -- Editors and authors / Hilary McPhee -- The orchard / Kath McLean -- Editing indigenous writing / Josie Douglas and Robyn Sheahan-Bright -- Commissioning / Diane Brown -- Peter Carey's True history of the Kelly Gang / Paul Eggert -- Illustrated books / Guy Mirabella -- The retail book trade / Michael Zifcak -- Margareta Webber's Bookshop / Laurel Clark -- The Little Bookroom / Albert Ullin -- Collins Booksellers / Michael Zifcak -- Gordon & Gotch / Denis Cryle -- Bookworld : where you never pay full price / Terry Herbert Reaching readers. Beyond bestsellers / Emma Hegarty -- Periodicals / David Carter and Roger Osborne -- Pulp fiction / Ian Morrison -- New life for a colonial classic Robbery under arms / Paul Eggert -- Feminist publishing / Diane Brown and Susan Hawthorne -- Multicultural literature / Sonia Mycak -- For children and young adults / Robyn Sheahan-Bright -- The Children's Book Council of Australia / Mark Macleod -- Postwar pioneers / Marcie Muir -- Building new lists/ Barbara Ker Wilson -- Omnibus Books / Jane Covernton -- Scholastic Australia / Robyn Sheahan-Bright -- Penguins and Puffins / Robin Morrow -- Translations and overseas editions / Kerry White -- Educational and reference publishing ; Curriculum materials / Gregory Blaxell and Don Drummond -- US educational publishers / John Collins -- University presses / Frank Thompson -- Dictionaries and style guides / Susan Butler -- Government publishing / Frank Thompson -- Readers and reading ; Baby boomers at play / Patrick Buckridge -- Biggles and beyond : a young man's reading / John Nieman -- The Women's Weekly and 'good reading' / Patrick Buckridge -- Romancing the reader / Ingrid Day -- Public libraries : books, bytes, buildings, brains / Alan Bundy -- The role of national and state libraries / Cathrine Harboe-Ree Summary This new volume in UQP's History of the Book in Australia series 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. Paper Empires traces this fascinating and volatile half-century, using wide-ranging research, oral history and memoir to explore the worlds of book publishing, selling and reading. After 1945, Australian publishing went from a handful of fledgling businesses to the billion dollar industry of today with thousands of new titles each year and a vast array of imported books. Publishing's postwar expansion began with the baby boom and the increased demand for school texts, with independent houses blossoming during the 1960s and 70s followed by the current era dominated by global conglomerates. All aspects of print culture are explored, from authorship and editing to bookselling, libraries and reading habits, in the context of today's rapidly changing publishing landscape with its many technological challenges. A wide range of expert contributors, including book-trade practitioners, have produced this lively and indispensable account of our vital cultural industry Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-412) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Book industries and trade -- Australia -- History -- 20th century Publishers and publishing -- Australia -- History -- 20th century Books and reading -- Australia -- History -- 20th century Book industries and trade -- Australia -- Case studies Publishers and publishing -- Australia -- Case studies Books and reading -- Australia -- Case studies LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing. FICTION -- General. Book industries and trade Books and reading Publishers and publishing Buchhandel Verlag Leseverhalten Buch Boekwezen. Australia Australien Australië. Genre/Form Case studies History Form Electronic book Author Munro, Craig, 1950- Sheahan-Bright, Robyn. LC no. 2006389606 ISBN 9780702242120 0702242128

Other Titles History of the book in Australia, 1946-2005

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