[LINK] Kim Carr's eBook working group is a joke

[Richard Chirgwin]

I must be getting thick-headed in my old age ... but why the hell do we 
want or need a government e-book working group?

RC

Stilgherrian wrote:
> Delimiter proprietor Renai LeMay has ripped into the composition of the eBook working group...
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> "[N]one of the members of the panel appear to be doing much in the eBook sphere at all.
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> "Can someone please explain to me what incentive Philip Anderson, chief executive officer of the Australian Printing Industries Association, or Lorraine Cassin, printing division secretary of the Australian Workers Union, have to help to move Australia’s archaic book industry into the new digital millennium? ...
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> "I love Gleebooks, but can anyone imagine that co-owner David Gaunt is not aware that more efficient digital distribution methods have the potential to put his fantastic bookstore out of business?
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> "Or what about Ross Gibb, the managing director of Macmillan Australia — the local division of one of the world’s largest paper book publishers?"
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> And more...
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> http://delimiter.com.au/2010/04/16/kim-carrs-ebook-working-group-is-a-joke/
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