Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- THE RISE OF PUBLISHING -- CHAPTER 1: After the War -- Anglo-Australian Relations in the Book Trade -- Flagship Angus & Robertson -- A&R's Takeover Crisis -- Andrew Fabinyi and Cheshire -- Frank Eyre and Oxford University Press -- They're a Weird Mob and Ure Smith -- CHAPTER 2 Sixties Larrikins -- Jacaranda Press and Brian Clouston -- Lansdowne and Lloyd O'Neil -- Rigby Limited -- Sun Books -- Packer Publications -- Horwitz -- CHAPTER 3 New Wave Seventies -- The New A&R -- Inner-urban and Outback -- Currency Press -- UQP -- Fremantle Arts Centre Press -- DW Thorpe and the Book Trade -- CHAPTER 4 Into the Global Era -- 2001 Publishing Report Card -- Thirty Years On -- Allen & Unwin -- Lonely Planet -- McPhee Gribble -- Magabala Books -- Text Publishing -- CHAPTER 5 Bookfutures -- Content Streaming -- Publishers On-line -- Copyright and Electronic Text -- BOOK BUSINESS -- CHAPTER 6 Writers -- Writers Centres -- Indigenous Writers -- Festival Big Top -- National Book Council -- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award -- Literature and the State -- CHAPTER 7 Editing, Design and Production -- Beatrice Davis -- Editors and Authors -- The Orchard -- Editing Indigenous Writing -- Commissioning -- Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang -- Illustrated Books -- CHAPTER 8 The Retail Book Trade -- Margareta Webber's Bookshop -- The Little Bookroom -- Collins Booksellers -- Gordon & Gotch -- Bookworld - Where You Never Pay Full Price -- REACHING READERS -- CHAPTER 9 Beyond Bestsellers -- Periodicals -- Pulp Fiction -- New Life for the Colonial Classic Robbery Under Arms -- Feminist Publishing -- Multicultural Literature -- CHAPTER 10 For Children and Young Adults -- The Children's Book Council of Australia -- Postwar Pioneers -- Building New Lists -- Omnibus Books -- Scholastic Australia.

Penguins and Puffins -- Translations and Overseas Editions -- CHAPTER 11 Educational and Reference Publishing -- Curriculum Materials -- US Educational Publishers -- University Presses -- Dictionaries and Style Guides -- Government Publishing -- CHAPTER 12 Readers and Reading -- Baby Boomers at Play -- Biggles and Beyond - A Young Man's Reading -- The Women's Weekly and 'Good Reading' -- Romancing the Reader -- Public Libraries - Books, Bytes, Buildings, Brains -- The Role of National and State Libraries -- Notes on Contributors -- Illustrations -- Further Reading -- Index.