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Pub Date Critical: April 2015
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Saturday, April 11, 2015. Typical uncritical media reporting on publisher and author confusion on parallel importation. Jason Steger in today's Age:. 8216;‘I will mention it to anyone who will let me mention it.’’ '. Saturday, April 4, 2015. Australian publishers' reactions to the Harper Competition Policy Review: same old, same old. Parallel import restrictions on books will be repealed. The reference to the hated PC and particularly its analysis of book prices in Australia compared to the US and the UK...
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Pub Date Critical: The Anti-Amazon Hysteria is Silly and Self-Defeating.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013. The Anti-Amazon Hysteria is Silly and Self-Defeating. I participated in a lively debate at Melbourne University last night on the topic 'Amazon Will Destroy the Publishing Industry'. I was on the negative side. We won. Here is my contribution:. The book industry's antipathy to Amazon is getting really, really silly. It's descending into farce. Typically, however, the bookselling community went hysterical:. 8216;We don’t see this new program as being at all credible’. Big W has ...
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Pub Date Critical: June 2013
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Saturday, June 8, 2013. It was hurled by the Australian Law Reform Commission. There were close to 300 submissions. What initially impressed me about the Discussion Paper was its respect for all points of view, even the crazy ones. It was sympathetic, nice, polite and politically neutral at every turn. It's as if the ALRC has said 'Go back and start all over again! Case It never even suggests that conservative, iffy judgements like Optus Now. However this tendency to be even-handed and nice means it refu...
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Pub Date Critical: June 2014
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014. Book Prices in Australia Today vs Five Years Ago. I penned this piece. For The Conservation and it was published today. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Visit my other blog. Melbourne, Vic, Australia. I spent 35 years in book publishing - educational, professional and trade (non-fiction). I am currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. View my complete profile.
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Pub Date Critical: February 2014
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Saturday, February 15, 2014. I commented on the Discussion Paper. Released in June 2013 ( here. And prior to that had some sport with the rather woeful industry submissions ( here. Now we have the Final Report. And a Summary Report. I criticised the commission's Discussion Paper. The ALRC has a lot to say about this, because you can tell it upsets them. Let me quote their response in full:. It would be nice if all industry leaders would just take the time to actually read this important and measured repo...
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Pub Date Critical: March 2013
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Saturday, March 30, 2013. Bollocks, basically: The Sieghart Report on UK libraries and ebook lending. Last year the UK Culture minister commissioned a panel of library and publishing industry representatives to investigate e-lending by public libraries in England and to make some recommendations. The panel was chaired by philanthropist, entrepreneur and publisher William Sieghart, and their rather slim and insubstantial report was published this week. The key recommendations were:. Frankly, this is stagg...
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Pub Date Critical: Copyright and the Digital Economy: the ALRC's Final Report
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Saturday, February 15, 2014. I commented on the Discussion Paper. Released in June 2013 ( here. And prior to that had some sport with the rather woeful industry submissions ( here. Now we have the Final Report. And a Summary Report. I criticised the commission's Discussion Paper. The ALRC has a lot to say about this, because you can tell it upsets them. Let me quote their response in full:. It would be nice if all industry leaders would just take the time to actually read this important and measured repo...
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Pub Date Critical: May 2013
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Friday, May 31, 2013. An Exquisitely Dumb Move from Cengage. After Wiley lost its recent case in the US Supreme Court on the issue of 'first sale' and re-importation (I blogged about it below) it was always possible, however remotely, that a major US higher education publisher would panic and indulge in some sort of extraordinarily silly and defensive behaviour. Cengage has done it. It has just announced a new 'global pricing' initiative:. Petrulis said the new structure is a response to the recent.
