Among the submissions posted in the past week are:
- Responses from booksellers including RedGroupRetail (comprising Angus & Robertson, Borders and the SupaNews newsagency chain), Readings, Gleebooks, Better Read Than Dead, Brays Books, The Avenue Bookstore, Thesaurus, Abbeys and Pages and Pages;
- A submission from the Book Publishers Association of New Zealand;
- A response from the University of Melbourne Book Industry Study, which seeks to clarify the findings it provided and which are quoted in the Commission's draft report, and
- Submissions from the Australian Publishers Association, Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and the Coalition for Cheaper Book--including an attachment listing names and comments from Dymocks' 18,000-strong petition. (WBN reported on the contents of these submissions last week, here.)
The issue of parallel importation continues to garner media attention, with Dymocks CEO Don Grover, MUP CEO Louise Adler, ABA CEO Malcolm Neil and Allan Fels appearing on last night's Australia Talks program on ABC Radio National, and an opinion piece by Grover and subsequent response from Australian Society of Authors (ASA) executive director Jeremy Fisher on ABC Online drawing many comments.
The Productivity Commission will continue to post submissions on its website here and is due to report to the federal government on 13 May.
Published: 29/04/2009
