Posts tagged…Books
Led by lunatics
Wed, Jul 21 2010Mark Lawson's new book "A Guide to Climate Change Lunacy" (ConnorCourt Publishing, 2010) arrives with brilliant timing, just as Australia gets another chance to make a choice on climate change policies in the 2010 election. Based on his credentials as a respected journalist -- he's a leading science journalist and editor for the Australian Financial Review -- Lawson has a great opportunity to…
Read more…Remove the buy-local tax on books
Tue, Jul 14 2009Yes! 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…
Readers pay for publishers’ protection
Tue, Jun 09 2009Joshua Gans seems to agree with me that access to low-cost Kindle e-books is one reason to get rid of the ban on competitive ('parallel') import of books.
"So why is it possible for hard copies of books to move across international borders but not electronic copies? The answer is that publishers, who have intellectual monopolies over these works, for their own reasons have not done the deals to…