Contents: The 'Paternoster Row Machine' and the Australian book trade, 1890-1945 p3. Britain's largest export market p19. Publishers and editors: Angus and Robertson, 1888-1945 p27. The New South Wales Bookstall Company: paperback phenomenon p36. A.W. Jose and the Australian Encyclopedia p42. David McKee Wright as literary editor of the Bulletin p49. The Communist Party as publisher p51. Music publishing p54. The Bulletin as publisher p57. P.R. Stephensen p60. Publishing in languages other than English p64. Literary censorship, imperialism and the White Australia Policy p69. How did authors make a living? p83. Miles Franklin p97. Author's week, 1935 p100. Printing technology and book production p104. Frank Wilmot p112. Australian print workers p116. Bookshops and retailing p127. H.H. Champion and the book lover p144. Radical bookshops p146. Fuller's Bookshop p149. F.W. Preece p151. Dymock's p153. Public libraries p157. The New South Wales Railway Institute Library p176. The circulating library phenomenon p190. The Australian Army Education Service in the Second World War p199. The Bush Book Club of New South Wales p204. Mechanics' institute libraries p209. Private collectors' libraries p226. J.K. Moir and the Bread and Cheese Club p230. Thy mystery of the missing bestseller p235. Newspapers and daily reading p255. Literary journals p268. Women's magazines p276. Reference and non-fiction publishing p282. Science publishing p292. Textbook publishing p294. Children's literature p298. Drama publishing p310. Art publishing p314. Serious reading between the wars p325. Reading practices in Australia p335. Frank Anstey as reader p354. Miles Franklin as reader p355. The critical reception, 1891-1945 p359. Sydney literary societies of the 1920s p365. Reading models and reading communities p370. Private reading circles in Victoria p383. The Australasian Home Reading Union, 1892-97 p386. Literary anniversaries: commemorating Shakespeare and others, 1900-1940 p389. The book trade and the Australian reader in 1945 p401.