AustLit

' In 1960 the membership of the Australian Book Publishers Association (ABPA) was made up of thirty- seven publishing firms. Australia's population was then ten and a half million English-speaking people, and most of their books came from Britain and to a lesser extent the United States. Only twenty-five of the AB- PA's member firms actually published any books in Australia, and only nine could be said to have had a national profile. Of those, three were chiefly education- al publishers and two were academic presses, leaving just four - Angus & Robertson, FW Cheshire, Ure Smith and Horwitz - primarily interested in books for the general public. Compared with the others, Angus & Robertson and Horwitz were giants among pygmies, particularly since they both had substantial educational lists as well, Angus & Robertson under its own imprint and Horwitz under the Owen Martin imprint.' (Introduction 31)