Educational Publishing Awards 2020 winners announced
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the winners of the 2020 Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). Promoting Literacy Development (PLD) was awarded the 2020 Publisher of the Year for...
CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards 2014 winners announced
The winners of this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced.Best Resource in Primary Education went to Connected 2013 - Level 2 I Spy, Level...
CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards 2014 finalists announced
The finalists for this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced.The finalists in each of the categories are:Best Resource in Primary Education Wise Up! Years...
Additional Australian Curriculum subject areas available online
The Australian Curriculum for the subject areas of the arts, health and physical education, technologies, economics and business, and civics and citizenship for foundation year to year 10 is now available online. The...
Ingram acquires etextbook platform CourseSmart
In the US, Ingram Content Group’s Vital Source Technologies business has acquired the assets of CourseSmart, an etextbook platform founded by Macmillan, Cengage, John Wiley, McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson in...
OUP Australia titles to be sold internationally
Books published by Oxford University Press Australia are now being licensed in international territories by the rights team at OUP UK, reports the Bookseller. Anne-Marie Hansen, head of rights at OUP UK,...
Saffin appointed Macmillan Education MD
Peter Saffin has been appointed as the new managing director of Macmillan Education Australia. Saffin has been promoted from his previous role as general manager of secondary at Macmillan Education...
Cengage acquires rights to future editions of Pearson vocational titles
Cengage Australia has announced that it has acquired the rights to future editions of all vocational education titles published by Pearson Australia. Paul Petrulis, vice president of higher education and Gale...
CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards 2013 winners announced
The winners of this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Best Book or Series in...
Lift Education awarded NZ Education ministry publishing contracts
In New Zealand, Wellington company Lift Education has taken over the publication of the Ministry of Education’s School Journal and ‘Ready to Read’ series, following the announcement that government-owned publisher...
CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards 2013 shortlists announced
The shortlists for this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Best Book or Series in...
More publishers join Copyright Agency’s LearningField
Cengage Learning, Helleman Books and PCS Publications have signed up to the Copyright Agency’s LearningField etextbook subscription service for secondary schools. The Copyright Agency said in a statement this week...
NZ educational publisher Learning Media to close
New Zealand educational publisher Learning Media will close within coming months. The board of Learning Media said in a statement on 4 September that the government-owned company will be ‘wound...
Copyright Agency to launch etextbook subscription service LearningField
The Copyright Agency will launch an etextbook subscription service for secondary schools called LearningField at the beginning of 2014. The digital platform, which allows teachers and educators to aggregate learning materials...
APA Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2013 winners announced
The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne on 22 August. Winners...
CourseSmart offers flat-fee etextbook rentals
In the US, digital course material provider CourseSmart has launched a subscription pack that allow students to rent six etextbooks for a flat fee of US$200 (A$222), considerably less than...
Edify appointed Pearson distributor in New Zealand
Edify, a new distribution company founded by former managing director of Pearson New Zealand Adrian Keane, will take over the sales and distribution of Pearson’s educational products in New Zealand in...
‘75 positions potentially redundant’ after Pearson Australia restructure
Pearson Australia has announced a major restructure of its educational publishing activities, which could result in as many as 75 redundancies in the organisation. The publisher said in a statement...
Pearson to close NZ education business
Pearson has announced that it will close its educational publishing business in New Zealand by the end of August. Pearson Australia and New Zealand CEO David Barnett said in a...
Cengage announces global price structure for US-based higher ed print titles
Cengage Learning will adopt a new global pricing structure for US-originated higher education print titles in July, with around a third of the US-originated titles distributed by Cengage Australia to...