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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Your cynicism is quite understandable, MJ.
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The 'traditional' industry there appears to be in its death throes. The final nails in the coffin are just being hammered home by the ebook explosion ... and by the promise by the massive Ingram/Lightning Source to open a print and dispatch base in Australia next month.
When their printed-on-demand books hit the local market at reasonable prices and with only local shipping charge, retailers will at last be shown to have been artificially and hugely inflating cover prices for far, far too long. We've always had healthy readership Down Under, but until now, hefty shipping costs from US and UK LS print bases has significantly added to the cost.
Cheers. Neil
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Neil - I will definitely be checking your site and keeping Ingram-Lightning Source on my radar.
I really can't figure out why Australian business is so slack when it comes to any new technology when Australians are so tech-savvy. But it was something I noticed in my years of working - I would have to bully management people into using computers, email, paperless processing. I would go into clients' businesses and see things that would make most IT people weep - no proper backups, people being told to process orders with paper copies AND on the computer system because "the boss can't read the computer reports" (!!!!), no web sites (well, I don't use the internet so why would my customers?). And they wonder why the world passes them by and why their staff disappear into better jobs?