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 Australia's parallel import restrictions...
Parallel import debate: battle of the petitions and the price comparisons
Hitting back at the Dymocks petition launched last week, Australians for Australian Books (an umbrella group comprising the APA, Australian Society of Authors, Printing Industries Australia and the Australian Literary...
Bad news for Australian authors
The ALAA writes: 'The Australian Literary Agents' Association (ALAA) believes that the Productivity Commission's draft report on Australia's Restrictions on the Parallel Importation of Books released on Friday 20 March...
Literary agents write to PM on parallel importation
The Australian Literary Agents Association (ALAA) has written a letter to the Prime Minister arguing against any change to Australia's territorial copyright rules. The letter, written by ALAA president Jenny...
Australian Literary Agents Association letter to Kevin Rudd
Dear Prime Minister, I am writing to you in my capacity as President of the Australian Literary Agents' Association. Along with many others in the publishing community, our members were...