Momentum partners with Tablo to find best novels in progress
Australian online publishing platform Tablo has announced a partnership with Pan Macmillan digital publishing imprint Momentum to discover ‘future bestselling authors while they’re still writing their books’. Tablo, which provides...
Momentum acquires NT-set YA fantasy series and rural romance
Momentum has acquired two books in a YA crossover fantasy series by Justin Woolley and a yet-to-be-titled medical rural romance by Nicki Edwards. Woolley’s books have been acquired in a two-book...
Matthew Reilly novella published as serialised ebook
Pan Macmillan’s digital-only imprint Momentum is publishing Matthew Reilly’s latest novella as a serialised ebook.The first episode of Troll Mountain, a quest story set in the ‘kingdom of the trolls’,...
Lenton joins Momentum
Patrick Lenton has joined Pan Macmillan digital imprint Momentum in the newly created role of digital marketing assistant. Lenton has previously worked for Allen & Unwin in the role of...
Pan Macmillan to publish ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ novellas
Pan Macmillan Australia has announced that it will partner with US daytime television show The Bold and the Beautiful to publish a series of novellas based on the show. The...
Momentum author acquired by Macmillan in global book deal
Momentum author Kylie Scott will be ‘traditionally’ published by Momentum’s parent companies Macmillan in Australia and the UK and St Martin’s Press in the US as part of a four-book...
Momentum launches romance imprint Moonlight
Pan Macmillan’s digital imprint Momentum has launched a new romance imprint and online community called Momentum Moonlight. Momentum Moonlight, which has a dedicated website, will include all of Momentum’s current...
Treasure leaves Momentum
Anne Treasure has resigned as digital marketing executive at Momentum. Treasure will be tutoring in communication technologies and change at the University of Canberra.
Designing in a digital world
Now that ebooks have established themselves in the market, are they changing the way designers work? Drew Turney reports. One of the more ambitious ebook projects of the past year has...
Momentum launches $1.99 classics
Pan Macmillan’s digital imprint Momentum has launched a range of science-fiction, romance and erotic classics, each priced at $1.99. There are currently seven titles in the Momentum classics range: We...
Diary of a (digital) sales rep: Anne Treasure
What does a sales rep for a digital-only publisher do all day? We spoke to Anne Treasure, digital marketing executive at Momentum. What was your original job description? Has it...
Random House Australia to launch digital romance imprint
Random House Australia has announced that it will launch a digital-first imprint for Australian romance titles called Random Romance. The publisher said in a statement that the imprint will launch...
The new romantics
Three Australian publishers have announced new digital ventures in the past week that are aimed at one of the most popular ebook genres right now: romance. They’re also on the...
Future-proofing workflows
In the future it is likely that content will be published as books, ebooks, apps, webpages and formats not yet discovered. To prepare, some publishers are creating media-neutral workflows. Editor-cum-business...
Sleepers drops DRM with Kobo, other vendors to follow
Independent publisher Sleepers Publishing has announced that it has dropped digital rights management (DRM) protection from its ebook titles available through Kobo. Sleepers creative director Zoe Dattner told Bookseller+Publisher that...
Quote of the week
‘In the end, it took Joel [Naoum] and I all of about two minutes to decide that all of my ebook-only titles would be sold at the lower “American” price and...
Momentum to drop DRM on all titles
Pan Macmillan’s digital-only imprint Momentum has announced its titles will be released without digital rights management (DRM) protection by August. ‘We feel strongly that Momentum’s goal is to make books as...
Joel Naoum: Key findings on experimentation in digital publishing from my Unwin Trust Fellowship
Vanilla ebooks have been released by many major publishers in the UK from as early as 2006. They took off in a much bigger way when Amazon launched the local...
Quote of the week
'People have accused traditional publishers of racing to the bland middle ground to maximise their audience. Publishing digital-only books is all about racing to the edge'--Joel Naoum, publisher of Pan...
Harding, Treasure join Momentum; first Momentum titles to be released in February
Mark Harding and Anne Treasure have joined Pan Macmillan's digital-only imprint Momentum as digital marketing executives. Harding previously worked at Shearer's Bookshop in Leichhardt, NSW, looking after the store's website, social...