Macmillan Education joins Copyright Agency’s LearningField
The Copyright Agency’s LearningField etextbook subscription service has expanded to include content from ‘all six of the major Australian educational publishers’ after Macmillan Education signed up to the service. The Copyright...
APA Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2012 winners announced
The winners of this year’s Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards were announced in Melbourne on 6 September. At the awards ceremony held at Fed Square’s BMW Edge,...
‘Business as usual’ at Landmark, following acquisition by Campion Ed
Customers of Landmark School Supplies can expect ‘business as usual', following the company's acquisition by Campion Education, according to managing director of Campion, James Cathro. ‘From the point of view...
Educational publishers and authors critical of ASA report
Educational publishers have hit back at the recent Australian Society of Authors report on their sector, with one publisher describing it as ‘long on overblown rhetoric and bluster but very...
ASA to research educational publishing
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that it has appointed a researcher to undertake a study into the Australian educational publishing sector, looking particularly at the returns to...
Cengage creates new Asia-Pacific Group, appoints Chu president
Cengage Learning (formerly Thomson Learning) has announced the appointment of Tan Tat Chu to the role of president of ‘a newly formed Asia-Pacific Group that will combine the previously separate...
In brief
Concern at commercialisation of textbooks in NSWThe New South Wales Opposition has expressed concerns that the State Government is allowing corporations to market their products in books used in schools....