Aussie publishers demand rights at LBF

Tuesday, 15 April 2008 Books+Publishing

At one of the opening sessions at this year's London Book Fair (LBF), a number of Australian publishers have called for an end to British publishers' insistence on Commonwealth rights, saying the current system is 'outmoded, neo-colonialist and harmful to Australia's indigenous book trade,' the Bookseller reports. The dispute was...