OPINION: How Australian authors fare in the free market*

We’re being portrayed by some commentators as ”greedy”, ”narcissistic”, lazy cashed-up parasites preying on the poor oppressed Australian consumer, in cahoots with those wicked creatures, publishers.So what if the Productivity Commission’s recommendations of, on the one hand, ending parallel import restrictions on books, and on the other, giving government handouts to the then-decimated publishing industry, seem almost wilfully bizarre? So what if their attitude to literature seems to be a q…

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