The Reading Room to launch ebook platform
Sydney-based book networking website The Reading Room is preparing to launch an ebook retail platform. Owner and founder Kim Anderson told Bookseller+Publisher that the company’s ebook platform will have two...
Barnsley predicts 50% of HarperCollins fiction revenue to be digital in 18 months
HarperCollins UK CEO Victoria Barnsley has predicted that digital sales will account for 50% of the company’s fiction revenue within the next 18 months. In an interview with the Observer, Barnsley...
Screen Australia funding for book-related apps
Screen Australia has announced funding for a number of apps, several of which are based on books. Bottersnikes and Gumbles ‘brings to life the hilarious animated stories about the evil...
Red Room Company releases poetry app
The Red Room Company, a not-for-profit company which publishes new Australian poetry, has released an app called ‘The Disappearing’. The free app allows users to ‘explore’ poems with an interactive...
Amazon adds in-app purchasing capability to app store
Amazon has added in-app purchasing software to its app store, with Andriod app users now able to make purchases within applications sold in the Android Market, reports Bloomberg. The feature,...
Lonely Planet launches country guide apps
Lonely Planet has announced a series of new country guide apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, available via the App store. The first apps launched were country guides for...
Apple releases iBooks update, self-publishing app
Apple has released a new version of its iBooks application for iPad and a new self-publishing application, which together will allow Apple users to self-publish multimedia ebooks through the iBookstore....
Ebook retailers remove buy links from Apple apps
Apple has begun to enforce its revised in-app selling rules that require third-party sellers to give Apple a 30% revenue share on any content sold through apps. As a result...
Ebook retailers may be forced to amend apps after Apple rejects external-purchasing-only apps
Major players in the ebook retailing market appear to be facing a challenge to their current online retailing model, following a move by Apple that could net the company up to 30% of revenue...
QLD bookstore releases iPhone App
Independent Queensland bookstore TLC Books has created and released an iPhone application. Bookstore owner and creator of the app Tanya Caunce told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the store, which...
Steve Parish Publishing to launch Apps, ebooks
Australian publisher Steve Parish Publishing has announced that it has entered into a partnership with software company Brisware Pty Ltd to produce a range of Apps and ebooks for Apple...
‘ABR’ planning electronic version
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced it is developing a digital edition of the magazine to be released in 2011, in celebration of the magazine's 50th birthday. Deputy editor...
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IPEd tenders for 'Style Manual'The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has joined with Adelaide-based company Website Criteria and the Australian Graphic Design Association to submit an expression of interest to...
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iPad launches in NZ; 'Hairy Mclary' app at #1Apple has launched its iPad in New Zealand. Since the release of the iPad on Friday 23 July, Penguin Books New Zealand's...
MWF 2010 program launched
The program for this year's Melbourne Writers Festival, which runs from 27 August to 5 September 2010, has been launched. The festival's first keynote address will feature eight writers--Barry Dickins,...
iPad launches in Australia; no local iBooks content yet
The Apple iPad launched in Australia last Friday 28 May. Apple, which also launched the device in the UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland, reports more than...
RHA launches ebook list
Random House Australia (RHA) has confirmed the launch of its Australian ebook list. ‘A wide selection of our local Australian ebook titles and ebook titles from our international list are...
Allen & Unwin launches ‘Underbelly’ app
Allen & Unwin has announced the launch of an iPhone app for the three bestsellers in the ‘Underbelly' series, written by Andrew Rule and John Silvester and published in hard...
Seale to take on additional responsibilities for Southeast and Northern Asia
Random House Australia managing director Margie Seale will take on additional responsibilities for identifying business opportunities for the publisher in Southeast and Northern Asia. Seale confirmed to the Weekly Book...
Literary iPhone apps: bite-sized, pocket-sized and with Shakespeare to go
As someone who takes every opportunity to read, I'm usually distraught when I've forgotten to put a book in my bag in the morning. Not anymore. I got my iPhone...