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Expansion Of Publishing
A PROGRESSIVE MOVE
According to “Newspaper News” of 18th instant, Mr. P. R Stephensen, who visited Melbourne last month, says the objective of P. R. Stephensen and Company Ltd., is the publishing of one book a week. He has come with his partner, Mr. E. C. Lemont, to establish a Melbourne branch of the business. The Commonwealth he considers is happily placed for the book industry. The South African market is as accessible to Australia as it is to Great Britain, in Japan, the second language spoken is English, and elsewhere throughout the East there are communities of English people whose interest could be attracted to novels and other works by Australian writers. The exchange rate, too, is an advantage in marketing books to that public. “Australian authors in
