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Publishing for Schools : 1946-1960

'In the period after the Second World War. most secondary texts were imported from Britain to meet the needs of Australia's secondary school market at a time when this sector was beginning to expand rapidly. Large educational booksellers began to emerge as both booksellers and publishers.The key booksellers in this trade included MeLeod’s in Brisbane, Whitcombe & Tombs, Dominie and Angus & Robertson (A&'R) in Sydney, FW Cheshire and Hall‘s in Melbourne and Rigby in Adelaide. Responding to demand, they replaced imported texts with their own educational books. In the years following World War II, most secondary texts were imported from ’(Introduction 314)

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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. 314-322
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