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Originally Posted by viviena
I remember all the hullaballoo about allowing parallel importation, and I had the very strong impression that the majority of bookstores were in favour of opening up the market. In particular, it was Dymocks that campaigned strongly for this.
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I do remember Dymocks making a fairly quiet argument regarding the issue. But I cannot recall the other booksellers making a big argement about it. You would think it would have been in their best interest to take a bigger campaign to the government.
Unfortunately Dymocks is expensive and uninterested in assisting customers to order books they simply do not sell. But they seem to be in a much stronger position than RedGroup.
So fair cop, I will admit that that was the wrong argument to use.
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Originally Posted by viviena
I bought ebooks from Borders AU, mainly works by Aussie authors. Borders did have quite a few local works not sold by Kobo or Amazon. IIRC, one of Border's publicity releases had boasted of how they had signed ebook distribution deals with every major publishing house in Australia.
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I do remember that press release and their estore did have several titles that were previously geo restricted.
I just heard a radio interveiw the owner of New Editions bookstore in Fremantle WA. he has said the online book purchasing is an issue but seems to think that parallel import restrictions are as big a problem for local stores