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Cheaper books are on the way, but IP policy still favours big business

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imageIt's never made sense that Australians pay more for books that those in the US.Image sourced from Shutterstock.com

Cheaper content, but not just yet. That’s the message in the federal government’s response to the parallel import recommendations by the Harper Review on competition policy.

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