Griffin Press launches carbon calculator
South Australian-based printer Griffin Press has launched a carbon calculator for book publishers to understand and make decisions about the carbon emissions generated through the company's manufacturing process. Griffin Press...
‘The Tomorrow Book’ wins Environment Award for Children’s Literature
The Tomorrow Book by Jackie French and Sue deGennaro (HarperCollins) has won the 2011 Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature. The Wilderness Society announced the winner of this year's...
Boomerang Books claims carbon neutrality
Australian online bookstore Boomerang Books claims to have become Australia's first carbon-neutral online bookstore. The company has stated that ‘from May 2010, Boomerang Books will be subject to an annual...
Random to print all local titles on FSC paper
Random House Australia (RHA) has announced that from this month all of its Australian books will be printed on paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). ‘At Random House...
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Donoughue enters the blogospherePeter Donoughue, former managing director of John Wiley and Sons in Australia, has created a new blog Pub Date Critical (click here). In his first posts the former...
Ripe for recognition
Two book-related businesses are among the finalists for the 2008 Telstra Victorian Business Awards. Melbourne-based design and book publishing company Ripe Off The Press is a finalist in the ‘micro-business'...
Plastic bags to be banned in SA
Legislation introduced to the South Australian parliament aims to ban most lightweight plastic bags from supermarkets and other shops by May next year. The proposed legislation comes after a meeting...
‘Green’ industry requires cooperation: APA environmental workshop
Delegates to the Australian Publishers Association (APA) environmental workshop held in Sydney on Thursday 1 May, have agreed on several areas where the industry would benefit from working together to...
MWF program announced
The program for the 2007 Melbourne Writers Festival was officially launched on Friday 20 July, and appeared in a special supplement as part of the Saturday Age newspaper the following...
FSC launches Publishers, Printers and Paper Network
The launch of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)'s Publishers, Printers and Paper (PPP) Network in Melbourne in 5 July was a sell-out, attracting 130 attendees, according to organisers.'We were very...
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HarperCollins to be ‘carbon neutral' by 2010News Corporation, the parent company of HarperCollins owned by Rupert Murdoch, will be ‘carbon neutral' by 2010, according to a report in News Corporation-owned...