Contents include: Anglo-Australian relations in the book trade p7. Flagship Angus & Robertson p10. Angus and Robertson’s takeover crisis p13. Andrew Fabinyi and Cheshire p19. Frank Eyre and Oxford University Press p21. ‘They’re a weird mob’ and Ure Smith p24. Sixties larrikins p31. Jacaranda Press and Brian Clouston p34. Lansdowne and Lloyd O’Neil p38. Rigby Limited p41. Sun Books p43. Packer Publications [including Little Golden Books and Shakespeare Head Press Pty Ltd (SHP)] p47. Horwitz p50. New wave seventies p53. The new Angus and Robertson p57. Inner-urban and outback p63. Currency Press p66. University of Queensland Press (UQP) p73. Fremantle Arts Centre Press p76. D.W. (Daniel Wrixon) Thorpe and the book trade p78. Into the global era p81. Allen and Unwin p93. Lonely Planet p105. McPhee Gribble p108. Magabala Books p111. Text Publishing p113.
The future of the book p118. The resilience of paper p119. The E-book and its reader p120. Economics of e-publishing p121. New technologies: E ink p123. D-books / print on demand p124. Content streaming [multinational media conglomerates] p126. Publishers on-line [websites] p131. Copyright and electronic text p134. Book business p137. Writers p139. Bestsellers and the pursuit of literary fame p140. The profile of Australian literature p141. International presence p141. Australian writing awards p142. Preserving the heritage of writers and their books p145. Writers centres p146. Indigenous writers p150. Festival big top [writer’s festivals, Adelaide Writers’ Week] p156.
National Book Council p159. The Australian / Vogel Literary Award p162. The Commonwealth Literary Fund and the Literature Board p166. Editing, design and production p174. Beatrice Davis p177. Editors and authors p182. ‘The orchard’ by Drusilla Modjeska p185. Editing indigenous writing: Josie Douglas and Robyn Sheahan-Bright p189. Commissioning p191. ‘True history of the Kelly Gang’ by Peter Carey p195. Illustrated books p198. The retail book trade p202. Margareta Webber bookshop p214. The Little Bookroom p217. Collins Booksellers p221. Gordon and Gotch p224. Bookworld p228.