Melbourne Uni launches new discount online store
Melbourne University Bookshop has recently launched a new online discount bookstore. Bookshop Bargains was launched last month and offers shoppers heavily discounted fiction, nonfiction and academic books, with some titles...
University of Adelaide to replace textbooks with iPads
The University of Adelaide's Faculty of Sciences has announced that it will provide all first year students in 2011 with a free iPad in a move to replace traditional study...
Wiley reports Asia-Pacific Higher Ed revenue up 13%
Revenue in Wiley's Higher Education category for the Asia-Pacific region grew by 13% in the 2009/10 financial year. In its global annual report, Wiley said the Asia-Pacific full-year revenue of...
Monash ePress to become Monash University Publishing
Monash University's publishing unit, currently known as Monash University ePress, is set to change its business plan with the launch of Monash University Publishing on 8 September. ‘From the launch...
APA Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2010 winners announced
This winners of the 2010 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced today at an awards ceremony in Sydney. The overall winner was Physics in Focus Preliminary...
Cengage acquires McGraw Hill secondary list
Cengage Learning has announced it has acquired McGraw-Hill Australia's portfolio of secondary school titles. The acquisition, effective 1 August 2010, was ‘an attractive portfolio fit for Cengage Learning with the...
Melb Uni launches Custom Book Centre
The University of Melbourne launched its Custom Book Centre last week.The Centre is a joint venture between the Melbourne University Bookshop and the university's library. The Centre is located in...
Booksellers summit ‘a very constructive exercise’
A group of 15 bookselling and library supply representatives met in Sydney yesterday to 'discuss and come to agreement on the major issues facing booksellers'.The meeting included representatives from all...
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Wheeler Centre opens; first event raises $20,000 for Indigenous Literacy ProjectThe Wheeler Centre officially opened on Friday night, with the Centre's first event, A Gala Night of Storytelling, raising $20,000...
Uni of Melbourne Bookshop gets mark 2 Espresso Book Machine
Following a ‘soft launch' in late 2009, University of Melbourne Bookshop is ‘now the proud owner of the first mark 2 Espresso Book Machine in the Southern Hemisphere', bookstore manager...
University of Adelaide launches e-press
The University of Adelaide has launched its own e-press. The University, which has published scholarly works under various guises since the 1920s (including the Hassell Press which merged with Griffin...
OUP, QUT Bookshop, winners at ACBA annual conference
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) held its annual national conference last week in Brisbane. The conference, which ran from 4 to 6 November at the Royal on the Park...
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Elsevier Australia launches online ordering system ‘Virtual E'Elsevier Australia has announced the launch of a new online stock ordering system called Virtual E. ‘The sophisticated B-to-B portal allows bookstores to...
Local scholarly publisher wins ebook award
Melbourne-based Therapeutic Guidelines has won the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) award for ‘best ebook publisher', for the electronic product eTG complete. The award, which is open...
Cooke wins British Medical Association book award
Infectious Diseases: Atlas, Cases, Text (Robin A Cooke, McGraw-Hill Education Australia) has won the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Book Competition's BMA Illustrated Book Award, announced in London on 8...
Melbourne University Bookshop to merge SPP Medical and UPB Professional bookshops in 2010
The University of Melbourne has announced it will establish a ‘new and exciting' bookstore in early 2010. The bookstore, which will merge the recently acquired SPP Medical Bookshop with the...
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Random House New Zealand receive environmental accreditationRandom House New Zealand has received Gold-level accreditation from Enviromark, an environmental accreditation scheme. The Random House NZ office features a full recycling system,...
OUP reports increased turnover, increased local sales
Oxford University Press has reported a rise in turnover to £578.7million (A$1156.8 million) for the year ended 31 March 2009 from £492.3 million (A$984.1 million) for the previous year. The...
Wiley signs with Attributor
John Wiley has signed up with Attributor, an online tracking service which helps to prevent unlawful use of its authors' content on the web. Wiley's director of corporate communications, Susan...
Prod Comm: Educational publishers and booksellers reject recommendations
Several educational publishers and campus booksellers have united in opposition to the Productivity Commission's recommendations on parallel importation restrictions (PIRs). ‘It is certainly disappointing that the [Commission] doesn't understand that...