The Australian Book Industry: Authors, publishers and readers in a time of change

澳大利亚图书行业每年对经济的贡献超过20亿美元，是我们最重要的创意产业之一。但电子书的兴起和其他数字技术的发展正在导致整个图书供应链的范式变化。本项目从作者、出版商和读者这三个主要环节探讨对这些变化的反应。该项目开发了一种创新的方法来分析图书行业对澳大利亚经济和我们国家文化生活的贡献。它将产生广泛的新数据和分析，为政府和行业决策提供信息，在这个行业历史的关键时期。

The Australian book sector contributes over $2 billion annually to the economy and is one of our most important creative industries. But the rise of e-books and other developments in digital technologies are leading to paradigmatic change across the entire book supply chain. This project addresses the nature of responses to these changes at three principal points in the chain: authors, publishers and readers. The project develops an innovative approach to analysing the contribution the book industry makes to the Australian economy and to our national cultural life. It will generate extensive new data and analyses to inform government and industry policy-making at this critical period in the industry’s history.