Choose future of book printing in Choice poll
The printing industry is being encouraged to vote in support of Australian book printing in an online poll being conducted by consumer organisation, Choice.
The Choice poll is seeking public reaction to the Productivity Commission’s recommendations to end territorial copyright (30-day rule) which has been widely condemned and criticised by organisations such as Printing Industries.
Printing Industries CEO, Philip Andersen, said that if implemented by the Federal Government, the recommendations would devastate Australia’s book printing industry and have a flow-on effect into all other sectors of the industry.
“This poll, by such an influential organisation, is an important key to showing our industry’s opposition to the Productivity Commission recommendations and highlighting to the public in general that this is not a simplistic issue of price, which many book sellers would have you believe,” he said.
“We are already lobbying the Government and Opposition parties and I will raise the issue in person with the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, when he attends the NSW CEO Forum next week.
“But this poll now gives everyone the opportunity to have their say and to actively make a difference.”
People accessing the online poll are given five options to answer the question: Allowing the parallel importation of books will:
- Spell the end of the specialist book store
- Be good for the book-buying public
- Kill off the Australian book publishing industry
- Only benefit the leading book chains
- Other
“I encourage you to use the link below to voice your opposition as soon as possible by selecting one of the three pro-industry campaign support option answers,” Andersen added.
Vote in the poll by clicking here.