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The Reading Room to launch ebook platform 

12 September 2012

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...

Screen Australia funding for book-related apps 

4 July 2012

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 

1 June 2012

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...

Lonely Planet launches country guide apps 

18 April 2012

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 

24 January 2012

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....

QLD bookstore releases iPhone App 

31 January 2011

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 

26 October 2010

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 

21 September 2010

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...

In brief 

2 August 2010

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...

In brief 

28 July 2010

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 

20 July 2010

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,...

RHA launches ebook list 

1 June 2010

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 

25 May 2010

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...