Remove the buy-local tax on books

Yes! The right recommendation for a more competitive and better-informed (or, at least, better-read) Australia.

"The Government should repeal Australia’s Parallel Import Restrictions (PIRs) for books. The repeal should take effect three years after the date that it is announced." Extract from Research report - Productivity Commission

This discretionary quota on books maintains local margins for the global book publishers and printers at the cost of readers and competitive Australian publishing. Now maybe—at last—we will see a more aggressive release of electronic titles ('Kindle books') in Australia. Welcome to the 21^st century.

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