The Coalition for Cheaper Books...

  • Believes customers in Australia pay too much for books
  • Advocates an open market,leading to lower prices quicker availability
  • Supports removal of restrictions on parallel importation of books
  • Argues the current policy can't be justified in an era of e-commerce

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FAQ – Do Australian Consumers care about the price of books?

11. June 2009

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Yes they do and many have now voiced their concerns to the Productivity Commission. The Coalition for Cheaper Books is convinced that Australian’s care passionately about the unjustifiably high price of books. That is why we sought the views of consumers we knew already had an interest in books through the Dymocks’ Booklovers Club Members. In [...]

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FAQ – What is to stop booksellers importing thousands of remaindered books from overseas and flooding the market?

11. June 2009

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There are a number of reasons why that won’t occur. Firstly and most importantly Australian consumers wont demand such remaindered books. If consumers don’t want them booksellers won’t order them. Australians will continue to prefer Australian printed and published books which will also be more competitively priced. Cheaper good product will easily compete with remaindered products.

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FAQ – But why should Australians give up territorial copyright if the US and the UK don’t?

11. June 2009

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Territorial copyright will still exist. Australian authors will continue to sell their rights to Australian publishers for Australian publication and in most cases those Australian publishers will sell most if not all of the copies of the book in question, sold in Australia.  What will be different with parallel importation is the publishers will not have [...]

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FAQ – Won’t this lead to a flood of cheap American books?

11. June 2009

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Why would it? It hasn’t in New Zealand. The Australian Publishers Association’s own consultants have stated that there has been little actual parallel importing in New Zealand since the restriction on it was lifted over ten years ago. Australian’s will still want and demand quality versions of the books they love. They will still demand Australian [...]

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