http://disqus.com/by/yakboy/enThu, 16 Jul 2009 02:13:06 -0000http://librarianidol.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-parallel-importation.html#comment-12730102<p>I believe that keeping prices artificially and anti-competitively inflated is a bad way to protect creativity.</p><p>Yes, it's a tough business to get into, and this could make things tougher, but it's a global age. Australian publishers don't have to print books in Australia - this may seem like an odd way of looking at it, but I think that, in the long term, very little manufacturing is going to remain onshore, and we need to be prepared for that and shift the focus of our economy away from manufacturing and towards higher-end businesses.</p>yakboyThu, 16 Jul 2009 02:13:06 -0000