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'Careless' wins Colin Roderick AwardCareless by Deborah Robertson (Picador) is the winner of this year's Colin Roderick Award for the best Australian book of the year. The prize, worth $10,000...
New e-book standard
A single e-book standard is a step closer after the Members of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) voted overwhelmingly in favour of accepting the Open Publication Structure 2.0 (OPS...
Lonely Planet trials downloadable chapters
Lonely planet has launched a trial of ‘Pick and Mix', a new product that enables travellers to purchase individual chapters from Lonely Planet guidebooks. More than 350 chapters from 35...
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Stephen King mistaken for ‘vandal' in Alice SpringsThe bestselling author Stephen King was mistaken for a book vandal when he began signing copies of his latest book Lisey's Story at...
Industry and Ozco address the future
While book publishing�so far has not been as affected by the advent of the web and digisation as other media industries, it was unrealistic to expect that situation to last,...
Digitisation critical for booksellers says EBF’s Mc Namee
This week's Australian Booksellers Association conference had reaffirmed the importance of the digitisation debate for booksellers, according to European Booksellers Federation (EBF) president John Mc Namee. Mc Namee was the...
Authors’ concern about S&S contract change opens debate on digital rights
The issue of how authors, agents and publishers negotiate contracts for digital rights is coming to the fore.In the most recent example, author and agent bodies in the US have...
CAL update
Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced a major new agreement with its US counterpart Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), which will allow access and payment for digital use of both Australian...
LBF underway
The 2007 London Book Fair (LBF) is currently underway.Early reports suggest that the new venue at Earls Court has been received much more warmly than last year's controversial Docklands site.Along...
Gardners launches digital warehouse
UK-based book wholesaler Gardners has announced that it will expand its services to include a ‘digital warehouse'.The digital warehouse will allow publishers to link their existing digital files, e-books, audio...
ACAP ‘milestone’
The ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol) Project has announced that it has passed a ‘major milestone' following a recent meeting in London.ACAP is a joint initiative by book and newspaper...
Random joins the widget wars
Following last week's announcement by HarperCollins of a ‘widget' to enhance its Browse Inside digitisation program, Random House has launched its own ‘widget', called Insight.Insight is currently available for 5000...
HC launches Browse Inside ‘widget’
HarperCollins (HC) has announced an addition to its ‘Browse Inside' digitisation program with the release of a free ‘widget' that can be used to add Browse Inside content to personal...
Microsoft’s Live Search Books is coming to the Antipodes–eventually
Further to last week's story about the partnership between Global Books in Print (GBiP) and Microsoft's Live Search Books program, Microsoft has provided more details on how Live Search Books...
New digital venture for HarperCollins
HarperCollins has announced that is has bought a stake in NewsStand Inc., the company that helped it develop its digital warehouse, and that together they will offer other publishers what...
HarperCollins launches ‘browse inside’ in Australia
HarperCollins, which announced late last year that it was digitising its entire catalogue (see WBN 4 January 2006), has now launched ‘Browse Inside', the first initiative to allow consumers access...