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		<title>US debt problems begin and end with politics</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/28/us-debt-problems-begin-and-end-with-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/28/us-debt-problems-begin-and-end-with-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian booksellers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers have their say,]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Life after REDgroup &#8212; Crikey maps the bookshop closures</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/27/life-after-redgroup-crikey-maps-the-bookshop-massacre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/27/life-after-redgroup-crikey-maps-the-bookshop-massacre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[angus & Robertson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian booksellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Booksellers Association]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, the number of Australian bookshops stood at around 2270. Following the REDgroup administration, and other shop openings and closures, we know that this figure is now around the 2000 mark. Some suburbs and towns are now without a dedicated bookshop, writes <b>Bookseller + Publisher's Elly Keating</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Death of the bookshop: what you pay for when you buy local</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/27/death-of-the-bookshop-what-you-pay-for-when-you-buy-local/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/27/death-of-the-bookshop-what-you-pay-for-when-you-buy-local/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian booksellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian bookshops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book publishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bookshops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parallel imports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many book lovers might choose to shop locally rather than on overseas websites if they had the chance to ponder some of the implications of their decisions, says editor-in-chief of <em>Bookseller+Publisher</em> magazine <b>Matthia Dempsey</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Last page for book buying? Carr, Cunningham, Rosenbloom on REDgroup</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/18/last-page-for-book-buying-carr-cunningham-rosenbloom-on-redgroup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/18/last-page-for-book-buying-carr-cunningham-rosenbloom-on-redgroup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[angus & Robertson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian booksellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book suppliers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[borders stores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independent booksellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parallel imports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RedGroup Retail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Book retailer REDgroup is a victim of online retailers (and the federal government's rejection of recommendations to open up the local market) or simply poor management. <em>Crikey</em> asked publishers and retailers what it means.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Closing the book on retailing? Publishers nervous at giant&#8217;s health</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/11/closing-the-book-on-retailing-publishers-nervous-at-giants-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/11/closing-the-book-on-retailing-publishers-nervous-at-giants-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian booksellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=163455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Redgroup Retail -- owner of Borders and Angus &#038; Robertson -- has been forced to jack up prices, increase returns and extend trading terms with its suppliers, leaving publishers anxious about the industry's health. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Drink from the world’s well (through a book)</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/11/daily-proposition-drink-from-the-world%e2%80%99s-well-through-a-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/11/daily-proposition-drink-from-the-world%e2%80%99s-well-through-a-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Proposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian booksellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian bookshops]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<em>The Well at the World’s End</em> is a wonderful book. I particularly enjoyed his encounter with the secret tourist police in Laos, writes bookseller <ian Hallett</b>.</ian>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turnbull launches Shitstorm in Sydney. The book, that is</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/01/talking-the-town-turnbull-launches-shitstorm-in-sydney-the-book-that-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/01/talking-the-town-turnbull-launches-shitstorm-in-sydney-the-book-that-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Saville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talking the Town]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian booksellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shitstorm]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=149831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If a week is a long time in politics, then it’s an eternity in book publishing. Last week, then PM Kevin Rudd launched the new <em>Shitstorm</em> book. This week Malcolm Turnbull launched it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Book import change can only hurt consumers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/book-import-change-can-only-hurt-consumers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/book-import-change-can-only-hurt-consumers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[parallel imports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What sets Australia’s book retail environment apart is its variety and the range of books on our shelves, but the latest turn of events in the saga of Australian territorial copyright for books is putting that reputation at risk, writes <b>Steve Robinson</b>.

]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/book-import-change-can-only-hurt-consumers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Book industry has to accept the Kindle: it may be a bumpy ride</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/book-industry-has-to-accept-the-kindle-it-may-be-a-bumpy-ride/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/book-industry-has-to-accept-the-kindle-it-may-be-a-bumpy-ride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian publishers may not like it, but e-books are not going away. And with the launch of the Kindle in Australia, the industry's going to have to adapt.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kindle not the book’s iPod moment</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/kindle-not-the-book%e2%80%99s-ipod-moment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/kindle-not-the-book%e2%80%99s-ipod-moment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian booksellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-reader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The release of Amazon's Kindle e-reader in Australia has impatient early adopters crying "about time". But don't get too excited, says <b>Matthia Dempsey</b>: you may not actually be able to read anything on it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dan Brown saves the literary world, one cliché at a time</title>
		<link>http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/in-praise-of-dan-brown/?from=scroller&#038;pos=1&#038;referrer=article&#038;link=text</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/in-praise-of-dan-brown/?from=scroller&#038;pos=1&#038;referrer=article&#038;link=text#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=91034</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Brown may be the writer we love to bash (see his 20 worst sentences <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/6194031/The-Lost-Symbol-and-The-Da-Vinci-Code-author-Dan-Browns-20-worst-sentences.html">here!</a>) but without him many other great writers would never be read. His books are like gateway drugs, says <b>Christopher Scanlon</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Battle of the books turns political</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/the-battle-of-the-books-turns-political/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/the-battle-of-the-books-turns-political/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian booksellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parallel imports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Commission]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Productivity Commission has recommended the removal of parallel import restrictions on books. So the issue will be politicised. And the battleground is likely to be jobs.

<em>Also on Crikey</em>
<a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/shane-maloney-i-am-a-leech-on-my-readers/"><b>Shane Maloney</b>: I am a leech on my readers</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>The juicy Tom Cruise bits digested. So sue us</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/16/the-juicy-tom-cruise-bits-digested-so-sue-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/01/16/the-juicy-tom-cruise-bits-digested-so-sue-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[australian booksellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bert fields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church of Scientology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david miscavige]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian booksellers are cagey about stocking Andrew Morton's tell-all Tom Cruise biog. Crikey is not. Here's our 2-minute tell-all version. 

]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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