tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49661415996696648432024-02-20T17:27:43.491+10:00Saving Aussie Books AGAINProtecting Australian children's books from Parallel Imports / Supporting Australian book publishingSheryl Gwytherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660201098245632077noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966141599669664843.post-44487312232880373182015-12-15T07:00:00.004+10:002015-12-15T07:01:41.246+10:00Peter Carnavas, children's author/illustrator speaks outPeter Carnavas
is a popular name in the children's book world. Today, he speaks out in
support of keeping the Restrictions against Parallel Importation of
Books.
As a children's author/illustrator, I know the huge impact that my books
and other Australian books have on children, inspiring them to develop a
love of reading.
If PIRs are removed, so many Australians will lose
out - Sheryl Gwytherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660201098245632077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966141599669664843.post-21721786378951187412015-12-14T18:24:00.000+10:002015-12-14T18:38:51.646+10:00What Nick said! Nick Earls, that is ... back in 2009
Author, Nick Earls spoke out eloquently against Parallel Imports six years ago.
His words are as valid today as then....
Cheaper books - it's a great carrot to dangle, but are things
really that simple? Australian author Nick Earls thinks not.
First,
are books in Australia more expensive than elsewhere? The Productivity
Commission worked hard to prove that was the case, but couldn't.Sheryl Gwytherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660201098245632077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966141599669664843.post-2477990767843289522015-12-12T10:38:00.000+10:002015-12-12T10:38:05.808+10:00 ANN JAMES, award-winning Australian children's illustrator speaks out
Ann James, award-winning Australian children's books illustrator speaks out against Parallel Importation of Books.
I'm an author illustrator of children's books and have been working hard in this industry for over 30 years.
Much of the work I do is related to promoting Australian children's books in our own market. We get far too little support or interest from the media, even Sheryl Gwytherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660201098245632077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966141599669664843.post-71553733375511648582015-12-12T07:54:00.000+10:002015-12-12T07:54:15.893+10:00SIGN THE PETITION NOW!
Please SIGN and SHARE the official Australian Society of Authors
PETITION AGAINST PARALLEL IMPORTATION OF BOOKS.
Sheryl Gwytherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660201098245632077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966141599669664843.post-57815766339676154672015-12-08T09:13:00.002+10:002015-12-09T19:38:11.909+10:00AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF AUTHORS to set up a PETITIONWe'll let you know when the PETITION is put up on the ASA website. I do have reservations about Petitions. People sign them and think, 'There, I've done my bit, and that's all I need to do'. But it's not.
It's only one tiny part.
The only true action is badgering politicians, relentlessly.
Take it from those who lived through the relentless civil justice atrocities and Sheryl Gwytherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660201098245632077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966141599669664843.post-59165754992249172292015-12-07T12:08:00.002+10:002015-12-07T12:40:40.817+10:00Pro-PI lobby, naysayers and economic rationalists come out to play ... right on cue
Right on cue, the naysayers begin their insults ... 'greedy authors and publishers who just want to make more money'; and who 'don't care about making books cheaper for Australians to buy' etc etc. And as they did in the last anti-PI campaign, economic rationalists and conservative naysayers rarely look beyond easy slogans.
Do they honestly think authors can feel wealthy on 3% -Sheryl Gwytherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660201098245632077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966141599669664843.post-81260492040263909172015-12-06T18:39:00.001+10:002015-12-09T20:20:02.581+10:00It's on again! Federal Government plans to lift Restrictions against Parallel Imports on Books
The latest bulletin from the Australian Society of Authors exposes the Turnbull LNP Government’s renewed plan to allow the parallel importation of books into Australia. Lifting the restrictions will add many burdens to Australian authors and the publishing industry.
'Mum' not 'Mom' in our Aussie kids' books!
Many of us (on behalf of our whole industry not just for ourselves and the Sheryl Gwytherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660201098245632077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966141599669664843.post-41184524295510868812015-12-06T18:06:00.001+10:002015-12-06T18:30:53.393+10:00'Removing PIRS threatens local authors'. Australian Society of Authors
Australian Society of Authors chair, David Day said removing PIRs threatens local authors and allows ‘the publishers of London and New York to get an even tighter grip on the Australian book market’.
‘Authors have already been hit hard by a big drop in book prices, which has caused an average halving of their writing income over the last decade,’ said Day. ‘Using academic theories about Sheryl Gwytherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660201098245632077noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4966141599669664843.post-65540866704354015442015-12-04T09:42:00.001+10:002015-12-07T12:09:30.062+10:00Federal Government threat to lift Parallel Importation Restrictions on Books ... again
Concerned Australians won this same battle against lifting the Restrictions in 2009, but we did not win the war. Now the Federal Government is pushing for opening up Parallel Imports again - deadline set for mid-2016.
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