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21-Nov-2008

If you ever want to be published in Australia... pay attention to this!

Posted At : 5:40 PM | Posted By : jenny
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The government is talking about allowing parallel importing of books.

What this means is that overseas publishers will be allowed to sell books only licenced for overseas markets, into Australia, which means they can unload all their old remaindered books in here at dirt cheap prices, making locally produced book uncompetative.

It also means that if you sell a book to an Australian publisher, to protect themselves from cheap imports later on, they will insist on worldwide rights, depriving authors of the opportunity to sell their work overseas. You might still sell overseas if the publisher manages to broker a deal, but you'll earn significantly less in the way or advances and/or royalties, because more people will be getting a cut of the pie.

If you go the other way, and sell to a US or UK publisher, they may not even consider the Austraian market worth the trouble, which means even if you get published overseas, you may never see the book for sale here. Or worse, they'll dump the remainders here, and you'll get nothing (once a book is remaindered, the author is out of the loop and even if it sells millions, you won't see a dime of it).

The only people who will do well out of this deal are the large bookstore chains. The change is being pushed by the Productivity Commission, BTW, of which by Bob Carr, the former NSW Premier is a member. Funny, don't you think, that he's also on the board of Dymocks?

Here is the letter sent to the Prime Minister by Jenny Darling, President of the Australian Literary Agents Association. You can find further infor here on the Australian Society of Authors page. ASA website.

Don't let this law be amended, people. We have a good system here than protects our writers.

Email the Prime Minister, Peter Garrett, your local member... anybody you can think of, to get this amendment stopped in its tracks!

Comments (157)

Comments

"That's what governments are for...to get in a mans way."

Posted By Melissa / Posted At 11/22/08 12:38 AM

and people kept telling me how this government would be good for us...

Posted By Sharyn / Posted At 11/22/08 7:13 AM

This makes me think of the government's proposed censorship for the internet. They're getting all these crazy bad ideas...

Posted By Aaron / Posted At 11/22/08 2:13 PM

Just wrote my own letter to the Prime Minister and Peter Garrett. Thanks for the heads up, Jenny. If enough of a stink is kicked up, it should prevent this from happening. Does the mainstream media know? (Or more importantly, care?)

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