Paper Empires
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Total Pages: 433
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Paper Empires
Author: Craig Munro
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 790
ISBN-13: 1458782689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new volume in UQP's History of the Book in Australia series explores Australian book production and consumption from 1946 to the present day. In the immediate postwar era, most books were imported into a colonial market dominated by British publishers. Paper Empires traces this fascinating and volatile half-century, using wide-ranging resea...
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Paper Empires, 1946-2005
Author: Craig Munro
Publisher: History of the Book in Austral
Published: 2006-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780702235597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation " ... It is highly recommended to anyone who thinks they have a serious interest in the book ... or would like to discover to discover something of the complexity of the well-springs of the Australian psyche." Biblionews Paper Empires explores Australian book production and consumption from 1946 to the present day, using wide-ranging research, oral history and memoir to explore the worlds of book publishing, selling and reading. After 1945, Australian publishing went from a handful of fledgling businesses to the billion dollar industry of today with thousands of new titles each year and a vast array of imported books. Publishing's postwar expansion began with the baby boom and the increased demand for school texts, with independent houses blossoming during the 1960s and 70s followed by the current era dominated by global conglomerates.
Sold by the Millions
Author: Louise Lightfoot
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2011-12-08
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1443835986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralian genre fiction writers have successfully exploited the Australian landscape and peoples and as a result their books are today “sold by the millions” across boundaries. They have created stories that are imaginative, visionary, and diverse. They appeal to local and international readerships and, most importantly, are thoroughly entertaining, thus making them a strong presence in the popular fiction bazaar. Sold by the Millions: Australia’s Bestsellers is the first collection to concentrate on Australia’s best-selling material that forms the armchair reading of many Australians. Leading experts of popular fiction provide introspective pieces on Romance, Horror, Crime, Science Fiction, Western, Comics, Travel, Sports and Children’s writing so that a wholesome picture emerges of the wide range of reading and research options available for scholars.
The Book is Dead
Author: Sherman Young
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780868408040
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"... books are machines for reading"--P. 161.
By the Book
Author: Patrick Buckridge
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780702234682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"By the Book is an indispensable history of the literature of Queensland from its establishment as a separate colony in the mid-nineteenth century through major economic, political and cultural transformations to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Queensland figures in the Australian imagination as a frontier, a place of wild landscapes and wilder politics, but also as Australia's playground, a soft tourist paradise of warm weather and golden beaches. Based partly on real historical divergences from the rest of Australia, these contradictory images have been questioned and scrutini.
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Author: Andrew van der Vlies
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 778
ISBN-13: 1868148017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheid This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives- historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book- collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; how the fates of South African texts, locally and globally, have been affected by their material instantiations; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship, during and after apartheid; books about art and books as art; local academic publishing; and the challenge of 'book history' for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.
The Censor's Library
Author: Nicole Moore
Publisher: University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 070223916X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn absorbing exposé of the books we couldn't read, didn't read, didn't know about, and the reasons why. When Nicole Moore discovered the secret 'censor's library' in the National Archives - 793 boxes of books prohibited from the 1920s to the 1980s - so began a journey that resulted in this, the first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship. For much of the twentieth century, Australia banned more books and more serious books than most other English-speaking or Western countries, from the Kama Sutra through to Huxley's Brave New World and Joyce's Ulysses. Federal publications censorship was a largely secret affair and deliberately kept from the knowledge of the Australian public until the scandals and protests of late last century. Censorship continues to attract heated debate, from the Henson affair to the national internet feed. Combining rigorous scholarship with the narrative tension of a thriller, The Censors Library is a provocative account of this scandalous history. Book jacket.
Resourceful Reading
Author: Katherine Bode
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2010-01-11
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1743321171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection provides the first comprehensive account of eResearch and the new empiricism as they are transforming the field of Australian literary studies in the twenty-first century.
