As the previous chapters have indicated, the high degree to which Party and state authorities determine the development and operation of Soviet publishing leaves to the individual publishing-house a severely limited number of directions in which it, as an enterprise, can make important decisions between different options. In recent years, some opinion has been expressed in the Soviet Union that central administration of cultural and educational undertakings, including publishing, should be more flexible and imaginative in its relationship to the creative process, and should restrict its regulation to coordinating work, setting the main ideological lines for publishing plans, and specifying the most important topics to be treated; but moves towards allowing the publishing-house greater discretion in economic and editorial matters have, so far at least, changed its situation to a strictly limited extent. This chapter deals with the relationship of a publishing-house to its controlling organisation (since there is no publisher which is not in this very directly subordinate position); the powers and responsibilities of its staff and consultative organs; its economic situation; its selection and handling of manuscripts; salaries and incentives; the decisions made in its internal planning (including the setting of edition sizes); and its links with the censorship.