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'Starters & Writers' by Mark Rubbo

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August 1986, no. 83

'Starters & Writers' by Mark Rubbo

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August 1986, no. 83

Round about May each year the American Booksellers Association hold their annual conference and trade fair. It is a huge affair when the American publishing industry plonks itself well and truly into the capitalist heart. Over a thousand publishers display their wares in huge airconditioned barns.

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Mark Rubbo is managing director of Readings. He is a past president of the Australian Booksellers Association and was founding chair of the Melbourne Writers Festival. In 2006 he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia.

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