Apple expands iBooks Textbooks and iTunes U Course Manager internationally
Apple has announced an international expansion of its iBooks Textbooks and iTunes U Course Manager products. iBooks Textbooks, a platform for interactive textbooks for use on the iPad, has expanded to...
Paid content available from iBookstore in NZ
Apple has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that titles from Harlequin, HarperCollins and Hachette New Zealand are now available on the Apple iBookstore in New Zealand. It has been widely reported today...
Kneen’s book banned by Apple iBookstore
Apple has removed Krissy Kneen’s erotic fiction novel Triptych (Text) from the iBookstore. Kneen told Bookseller+Publisher that Text received an email from iBookstore Publisher Support informing the publisher that the book 'has been ticketed for having...
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....
Finch launches ebook program
Finch Publishing has announced the launch of its ebook program. Marketing and publicity manager Laura Boon told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the publisher's ‘leading thirty titles... are being converted'...
Apple reveals iCloud
Apple has unveiled a 'cloud' service that allows ebooks to be shared more easily across a user's Apple devices. According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who announced the system at the...
NewSouth titles available through Apple iBookstore
NewSouth Books announced last week that a selected number of NewSouth Publishing titles are now available through the Apple iBookstore. Director of NewSouth Books Nella Soeterboek told the Weekly Book...
New Zealand customers unable to access iBookstore paid content
Paid content on the Apple iBookstore is yet to be launched in New Zealand, despite thousands of titles available for sale in Australia from the Australian iBookstore. Stuff.co.nz reported this...
Borders announces ebook price reductions
Borders has begun reducing the prices on many titles in its ebooks range, in response to this week's introduction of paid content on the Australian and New Zealand iBookstore. REDgroup...
Borders announces ebook price reductions
Borders has begun reducing the prices on many titles in its ebooks range, in response to this week's introduction of paid content on the Australian and New Zealand iBookstore. RedGroup...
Burgess appointed manager, iBooks Australia and NZ
Chris Burgess has announced he has been appointed to the role of manager, iBooks Australia and New Zealand for Apple. Burgess, who has been in the role of general manager at ReadHowYouWant...
Hachette Australia launches ebooks on Australian iBookstore under agency model, Kobo launch to follow
Hachette Australia has announced that its ebooks will be among those available on the Apple iBookstore Australia, which launched its first paid local content yesterday, and will be available on...
Apple iBookstore goes live for Australia with six local publishers’ ebooks
After only offering free out-of-copyright titles to Australian customers since May, the Australian Apple iBookstore launched with local paid content yesterday. Among the first group of six Australian publishers making...
Australian Apple iBookstore launches paid content
The Australian Apple iBookstore launched paid content today with ebook titles from Hachette Australia, Murdoch Books, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Hardie Grant and John Wiley & Sons among the initial offerings....
Hachette Australia launches ebooks on Australian iBookstore under agency model, Kobo launch to follow
Hachette Australia has announced that its ebooks will be among those available on the Apple iBookstore Australia, which launched its first paid local content today, and will be available on...
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...
Australian publishers move on ebooks
We now have two more major players in the ebook arena with the local launches of Apple's iPad and iBookstore and REDgroup Retail's Kobo ereading platform and ereader. Though its...