Books may seem expensive in Australia, but they’re cheap when you take costs into account. For independent publishers, times are tough. What can we do?
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Reading rates in Australia are falling – and price might be less of a factor than we think. We look at how Australia compares internationally, and what other countries are doing to boost reading.
Despite dire predictions, bookstores are doing well: they are curators of taste and community hubs. But their challenges are many – from the arrival of Amazon Down Under to a ‘post-truth’ climate that devalues knowledge.
Sales of scholarly books are dropping, even as their prices are rising. Will academia give up its resistance to an open-access digital model?
Five years ago, in the midst of the rancorous parallel importation debate the Productivity Commission undertook a thorough examination of book prices in Australia compared to comparable prices in the US…
Top contributors
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Sessional lecturer in the Master of Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
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Deputy University Librarian, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Publishing and Audience Studies, Edith Cowan University
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Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Language and Linguistics, Australian National University