This is a problem for everyone concerned with books from witers, publishers, booksellers to readers.____
There seems to be little action in developing a coherent plan for our market, with copyright issues seemingly a major sticking point. With e-books widely available in the US market and NOT here we seem destined to end up with a Google/Amazon solution.____
This isn't so bad for the majority of consumers, but when you see Google's response to political sensitivities and Amazon's 'accidental reclassification' of gay and lesbian books the benefits are suddenly outweighed by the costs.____
Add to this the lack of care for our domestic creative industry and we will be danger of losing control of our market.____
In the digital age content is where the action is... and I challenge anyone to find significant aggregated e-book content (that is not open source) that can be purchased in Australia using an Australian credit card or paypal account.