Innovation, interrupted: Zoe Dattner on the trouble with digital publishing start-ups
Why do so many digital publishing start-ups fail? Zoe Dattner, co-founder of Sleepers Publishing and the Small Press Network, remembers the innovators. Back in early May, I received an email from a start-up...
HarperCollins launches ‘direct to digital’ Impulse imprint
HarperCollins Australia has launched a new ‘direct to digital’ imprint.Harper Impulse will publish ‘fun, fast-paced reads in all commercial genres from epic fantasy to erotica’, said the company in a...
Designing in a digital world
Now that ebooks have established themselves in the market, are they changing the way designers work? Drew Turney reports. One of the more ambitious ebook projects of the past year has...
Amazon to release previously unpublished Vonnegut stories as Kindle Serials
Amazon is releasing a collection of six previously unpublished short stories, an unfinished science-fiction story and an unpublished nonfiction essay by Kurt Vonnegut as Kindle Serials, to sell for US$2.99...
Harper launches digital publishing business
Journalist and editor Charlotte Harper has launched a new digital-first publishing business called Editia. Editia (pronounced ‘edeesha’) will focus on works of long-form journalism and short nonfiction between 10,000 and...
Morrison teams up with Xou Creative to launch digital publishing business
Former Picador publisher Rod Morrison has founded a digital publishing business with David Henley and Jon MacDonald from Sydney-based design business Xou Creative. Morrison, who left Picador in 2011, told...
Quote of the week
'People have accused traditional publishers of racing to the bland middle ground to maximise their audience. Publishing digital-only books is all about racing to the edge'--Joel Naoum, publisher of Pan...
CAL digital publishing resource to include ‘how-to’ guide and website
Digital Publishing Australia, a new community resource to be launched by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), will include an introductory how-to guide to digital publishing and a website at www.digitalpublishingaustralia.org.au. As...
CAL to launch new Guide to Digital Publishing resource
A new Guide to Digital Publishing, developed by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL), will be launched in February. The resource will be launched at CAL's Annual Seminar on digital publishing,...
Wagner leaves Scribe
Former digital publishing co-ordinator at Scribe Publications Tamsin Wagner has left the company. Wagner, who had worked at Scribe for close to eight years, finished in her position at the end...
Random House Australia to launch Story-cuts
Random House Australia has ‘a number of new digital publishing projects underway including the release and development of Story-cuts', according to marketing and publicity director and head of digital Brett...
CAL survey finds 26 percent of publishers have no digital strategy
A recent survey conducted by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has found that 26% of local publishers admit to having no digital strategy. The survey on digital publishing trends, which recorded...
Calligaro appointed digital manager at Text
Text Publishing has announced the appointment of Michelle Calligaro to the newly created position of digital manager. Text managing director and publisher Michael Heyward told the Weekly Book Newsletter that...
Quote of the week
‘Some independent publishers are way out in front, some less so. Just as some big publishers are more advanced than others. It's a mixed bag'--Black Dog Books managing director Andrew...
HarperCollins announces local ebook list
HarperCollins has announced that ‘over 100 books by Australian authors are available to the international market through the HarperCollins eBook program'. ‘Ebooks present a wonderful opportunity for our authors to...
Small publishers move on ebooks: Exisle, Black Dog announce e-lists
Small Australian publishers appear to be moving on ebooks, with Black Dog Books and Exisle Publishing both confirming they have entered the market. Exisle Publishing has released 30 of its...
Apple confirms iPad will ship to Australia in April; ‘iBooks’ launch will follow
Apple has confirmed that its new iPad device will be available in Australia in late April. The iPad will be available in wifi and wifi+3G models, with pricing to be...
Google Editions: Palma outlines Google’s ebook plans
As an addendum event to Monday's digital publishing symposium in Melbourne, a ‘digital chat' session featuring New Zealand Digital Publishing Forum founder Martin Taylor and Google's Chris Palma, was held...
Digital publishing symposium: special report
Readers will pay more than they currently do for ebooks, but not much more; ebook publishing and digital marketing are not so scary once you get started; digital rights and...
Digital Publishing Seminar in Australia
The Australian Publishers Association has announced it will host a digital publishing seminar in Australia early next year, as a new joint initiative with the Australia Council for the Arts. The seminar,...