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Australian Books, an umbrella group comprising the Australian Publishers Association, Australian Society of Authors, Printing Industries Australia and the Australian Literary Agents' Association, has started an online petition and is asking for expressions of public support for its position in favour of the retention of the existing territorial copyright and parallel importation regulations.
The petition was launched in response to Australian bookseller Dymocks own online petition asking its customers to show their support for an open market. The petition is causing much controversy within the trade, reports the Australian book trade magazine Bookseller + Publisher, but Dymocks c.e.o. Don Grover told the paper that "our customers are responding to [our petition] in droves: they concur with us that they're spending too much for books and are willing to rectify it".
The Australian Books petition can be found at http://www.ausbooks.com.au/petition.php" target="_blank" title="http://www.ausbooks.com.au/petition.php">http://www.ausbooks.com.au/petition.php">http://www.ausbooks.com.au/peti... and it will form part of the APA's final submission to the Productivity Commission.
The petitions come in response to an Australian government Productivity Commission report into Parallel Importation in the country, which wants to see restrictions on buying competing edition from overseas publishers lifted. Final written submissions to the Commission must be made by Friday 17th April.