Dymocks launches ‘world-first’ e-books initiative
Dymocks last night unveiled a new Digital Books initiative that offers customers a choice of over 120,000 digital e-book titles, as well as more than 30,000 audiobook titles. Dymocks CEO...
ABC Enterprises and Vision Australia announce partnership
Following its announcement earlier this year that ABC Enterprises would cease audio book production, the ABC's commercial arm has announced a partnership with Vision Australia which promises continued production of...
Audies announced
The winners of the 2007 Audies--the ‘Oscars of the audiobook industry'--were announced on 4 June at a gala ceremony hosted by Jim Dale, the narrator of the US editions of the Harry...
Amazon buys Brilliance Audio
Following the news last week that ABC Enterprises is closing its audio books production department, online bookseller Amazon.com has announced the expansion of its audio books offering with the acquisition...
ABC Audio to close
ABC Enterprises has announced it will close its audio book production department, citing a review that ‘clearly showed the business has not been profitable in recent years and was not...
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...
Six Audie nominations for Bolinda
Australian audiobook publisher Bolinda has six of its titles in the running for the Audies, the annual US-based audiobook awards.The six Bolinda titles are:Knitting (Anne Bartlett, read by Beverley Dunn),...
AUDIES FOR HARRY AND ‘HITCHHIKER’S’
The winners of the Audies, the annual awards of the US-based Audio Publishers Association, have been announced.Winner of the audio book of the year is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the...