Primarily looking at publishing by and for artists, "Put About" casts a wide net and considers literature, blogging, magazines and various other distribution models. Key features of the book include specially commissioned artists' pages by Maurizio Cattelan, David Osbaldeston and Aleksandra Mir; an exchange between Stewart Home and Lynne Tillman; historical overviews by Paul Claydon and Michael Bracewell; and contextualising essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Emily King and Paul D. Miller. Recent innovations in models of publishing and distribution, and the reasons artists and publishers produce, are revealed in a section that asks eminent, international small presses the question 'Why publish?' The contributors include: John Baldessari, Simon Bedwell, Michael Bracewell, Andrea Brady, "Cabinet Magazine", Bonnie Camplin, Maurizio Cattelan, David Dibosa, Matthew Higgs, Stewart Home, Lucy Lippard, Emily King, Gunilla Klingberg, Jakob Kolding, John Miller, Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky, Aleksandra Mir, Stephanie Moisdon, David Osbaldeston, Raymond Pettibon, Lynne Tillman, Nicolas Trembley, and Axel John Wieder.