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

澳大利亚图书业每年为经济贡献超过20亿澳元，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。本项目探讨了对这些变化的反应的性质，在链条中的三个主要点：作者，出版商和读者。该项目开发了一种创新的方法来分析图书业对澳大利亚经济和国家文化生活的贡献。它将产生广泛的新数据和分析，为政府和行业在行业历史上的这一关键时期制定政策提供信息。

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.