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‘I think it's a shame that a minister makes comments such as "go buy your books overseas"'--Australian Publishers Association CEO Maree McCaskill, responding to comments by Consum...
Parallel importation decision: no change to current legislation
As reported in a WBN special bulletin this morning, Competition Minister Craig Emerson has announced ‘the Government has not accepted the Productivity Commission's recommendation to remove the p...
Parallel importation: ABA continues push for 'some reform'; Dymocks prepared to support compromise
As the trade continues to wait for a Labor cabinet decision on the recommendations of the Productivity Commission, booksellers have continued their push for a compromise plan. The Australian Book...
Parallel importation: Status quo 'just as dangerous' as an open market says ABA CEO
As the book industry awaits the results of continuing talks in Canberra and a final cabinet decision on the Productivity Commission's parallel importation report, the Australian Booksellers Associatio...
ASA: 'zero days' effectively a removal of territorial copyright
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has backed the Australian Publishers Association in rejecting a proposed compromise position on parallel importation. ‘We certainly support the posi...
MWF: parallel import debate
As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin last Friday, the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) added to its line-up a special debate on the Productivity Commission report and on the pros and cons of parallel...
ALP working group to consider Prod Comm report
As reported in a WBN special bulletin on Thursday, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) will establish a working group to 'consider the matters raised in the Productivity Commission's report' on the paral...
PC report: the horror (and the romance)
Members of the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) and Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) have joined in protest against the Productivity Commission's recommendation to remove parallel import...
Quote of the week
‘Further, the expansion of the books production industries over recent decades has attracted and held productive resources, notably skilled labour and capital, that have thereby been unavailable...
Productivity Commission recommends open market
As reported in a WBN special bulletin yesterday, the Productivity Commission's final report on Australia's book parallel importation laws has been released, recommending the government repeal Australi...
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