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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
Actually is is the publishers and authors that sign the contracts and threaten the retailers - ultimately their fault, as is your previously mentioned parallel importing.
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I'm not sure if I follow. AFAIK, if parallel importing was allowed, then publishers from outside Australia would have been able to sell e-books to Australian market. Of course the local publishers lobbied everybody blue in the face (local jobs lost and all the usual fluff), pollies got scared and we (the consumers) are left up the proverbial creek with nothing to paddle with.