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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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