The problem is that big players aren't able to make any money in the e-book market in Oz the way things stand at the moment (parallel import business).
There's a good
article in SMH by Rob Carr (the former NSW premier currently sitting on the board of Dymocks) discussing this issue.
Quote:
"The arrival of these devices shows how short-sighted publishers were to keep book prices high in Australia ... they shot themselves in the foot," said Carr, who sits on the board of Dymocks, in a phone interview.
"The Federal Government will have to sooner rather than later lift the ban on parallel importation because of the competition to traditional books now being provided by these technologies."
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I think unless somebody puts a rocket under our collective back-sides, we'll seriously left behind.