ANU Press was established in 2003 to explore and enable new modes of scholarly publishing. Taking advantage of new information and communication technologies to make available the intellectual output of the ANU academic community, ANU Press was Australia’s first primarily electronic academic publisher. The primary focus of the Press is the electronic production of scholarly works spanning a broad range of subject areas, all of which are freely downloadable in a variety of digital formats. Featuring some of the best academic writing from across the Asia-Pacific region, ANU Press texts are also available for purchase through a Print on Demand (PoD) service.