[LINK] The Australian book industry's role in digital culture

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings from Senator Lundy's Digital Culture Public Sphere, looking at 
government policy on the on-line contribution to culture, happening in 
Sydney today (it is being streamed live): 
http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/

The federal government's Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) has 
released "Cover to cover: A market analysis of the Australian book 
industry" a 134 page report prepared by Jeremy Thorpe at PWC for the 
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. Tjis is timely 
as I am in a breakout group at the Public Sphere event, discussing 
e-book policy with people from government agencies, industry groups and 
authors. In my view the BISG needs to take into account the new eBook 
industry more and the obsolete paper-book industry less: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/10/market-analysis-of-australian-book.html


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