The Retail Book Trade single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 The Retail Book Trade
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‘After the Second World War, retail bookselling was entering a period of consolidation, expansion and relative prosperity. Over the next fifty years, however, bookselling was confronted by the closed market operations, the abolition of resale price maintenance and the amendments to the Copyright Act. Most of these had their origins in the widely held belief that the prices of imported books in Australia were higher than the prices in the countries of publication. Because of geographical location, and a comparatively sparse population. Australia continued to be heavily dependent on imported books.’(Introduction 203)

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    y separately published work icon Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 Craig Munro (editor), Robyn Sheahan-Bright (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006 Z1275326 2006 anthology criticism (taught in 3 units) The second of a series of studies of Australian book production and consumption. The work is organised into three sections: 'The Rise of Publishing ', 'Book Business' and 'Reaching Readers'. Within each grouping are chapters on related subjects, in some cases accompanied by illustrative case studies. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006 pg. 203-214
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