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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
There isn't much the AU government can do about all this, except clear some hurdles for those foreign publishers and retailers who do want to sell ebooks directly to the Australian public.
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Except...*do* they want to clear some hurdles for foreign companies, or do they want to put more up? The publishing lobby proved to be quite powerful just in the last year or so, managing to block any changes to parallel import laws despite multiple reviews over several years concluding that they should be opened up, and despite the evidence of the music industry in Australian and the publishing industry in New Zealand.
I would encourage all Australians to put in a submission to the review to encourage more open and accessible ebooks from around the world.