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Paul Crosby, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University

The economic and cultural value of the Australian book industry deserves more government support

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The Australian book industry has operated for more than a century. It has matured into a mid-level English language market, smaller than the US and UK markets, but of sufficient size to generate first-rate books and export significant works to the rest of the world.

It is also an industry exposed to an unusual degree of risk at every level of the supply chain.

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