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European Commission concerned at restrictions to digitisation

The European Commission has proposed a series of initiatives designed to increase the number of digitised works made freely available, particularly regarding the reform of regulatory obstacles prevent...

Budget 08: ABA, ASA response

The 2008 federal budget contained no ‘significant new measures' that would affect booksellers, according to the new CEO of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Malcolm Neil  Neil to...

TPA changes 'a step in the right direction for booksellers'

Changes to the Trade Practices Act were passed recently by Federal Parliament, including the so-called ‘Birdsville amendment' proposed by Queensland National Party Senator Barnaby Joyce. &n...

ELR receives 'ongoing funding'

The Federal Government has announced that the Educational Lending Right (ELR) scheme will receive ‘ongoing funding'.  The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has welcomed the move, say...

Bloom Partners seek input on ABA paper

The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has commissioned industry consultants Bloom Partners to prepare a ‘green paper' to examine the arguments for and against the parallel importation of ...

In brief

Miles Franklin winner to tour Queensland and NT Alexis Wright, the winner of this year's Miles Franklin Award for Carpentaria (Giramondo), will tour rural Queensland and the Northern Territory in...

In brief

HarperCollins to be ‘carbon neutral' by 2010News Corporation, the parent company of HarperCollins owned by Rupert Murdoch, will be ‘carbon neutral' by 2010, according to a report in News C...

Hicks won't profit from book: Attorney-General

Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock (pictured) yesterday flagged that the federal government would introduce retrospective legislation to prevent Australian Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks from ...

NSW to propose privacy law

Proposals for a new privacy law by the NSW Law Reform Commission could disrupt Australia's now uniform defamation laws.  The proposals, due to be made public ‘within weeks' according to the...

Books to receive classification ratings?

The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has raised concerns over aspects of proposed Government legislation that could mean that all books will have to be classified. Senator Helen Coonan, th...
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