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About time, too. Really there was no need for Australia to be so far behind when it could have been ahead of the game.
One of the first small publishers to dedicate itself exclusively to ebooks was the excellent Jacobyte Books in Adelaide, back in the nineties. (The forward-thinking professional author/editor Meredith Whitford, who ran the house, is an MR member.)
But there was so little interest in digital books -- zero from local arts councils -- that my own wee BeWrite Books took over the company in 2004 to save some of its authors and titles from oblivion.
There's a wealth of talent still untapped in Australia because the publishing industry there seems to be dragging its feet.
Cheers. Neil
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