The Australian Society of Authors has published a report on Educational Publishing in Australia. The report is based on a survey of educational writers carried out in 2007 and early 2008 and states that since 2000, writers’ conditions have deteriorated due to onerous contractual conditions from a smaller pool of publishers. The impact of digital access to information has not been addressed quickly enough by publishers in the educational market.
The report indicates that “publishers have turned on authors and used their market dominance to force them
to sign over all copyright, write for a one-off, minimal fixed fees rather than
royalties, and forgo their right to additional sources of income such as CAL
payments and Lending Rights payments” in response to their declining profits.
Educational Publishing in Australia : What’s in it for authors? / Strawberry Hill, NSW. :Australian Society of Authors, 2008. 28p.
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