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iPad 2 to be released in Oz, NZ this week Apple has announced that the iPad 2 will go on sale in more than 20 countries this Friday, including Australia...
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Yass bookstore closes down The Little Dog Bookshop in Yass, NSW closed down in February. The bookshop, which opened in September 2007, was the first carbon-neutral bookstore in Australia.Changes to...
NZ Book Council short film wins two awards at Cannes
A short film produced by the New Zealand Book Council to promote books and reading has won two awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.The paper-cut animation, which uses...
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Fellowship for HeissAuthor and social commentator Anita Heiss has been announced as the recipient of a two-year fellowship for literature as part of the Australia Council's National Indigenous Arts Awards....
S&S launches new Australian website
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced the ‘soft launch' of its new Australian website. The new website at www.simonandschuster.com.au is ‘the first step' in an ongoing plan to improve...
Random House: new website a hub for digital marketing initiatives
Random House Australia (RHA) has unveiled its new website in a ‘soft launch', with bugs to be ironed out in coming weeks and further developments to come in June and...
Random House launches YouTube channel
Random House Australia has launched a YouTube channel with short book previews, teasers, author introductions and interviews. Random House marketing director Brett Osmond said the channel was about enriching the...
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New NZ book review websiteNZ-based Scoop Media has launched The Scoop Review of Books online at http://books.scoop.co.nz. The site, edited by Jeremy Rose, will promote books and authors with reviews,...
Schwartz launches ‘Slow TV’
Schwartz Media, publisher of the Monthly magazine, Quarterly Essay and Black Inc., has launched a new internet TV venture, SlowTV (slowtv.com.au).SlowTV will deliver online video content--interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures on...
Winton a hit at 2008 Leading Edge conference
The 2008 Leading Edge Books conference, held in Alice Springs from 7 to 10 March, attracted ‘about 150' delegates from around Australia, as well as representatives from most Australian publishing...
Penguin launches global webcast as Oprah picks Tolle
Oprah Winfrey has announced that the next book to be featured in her influential book club will be A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin).Penguin will partner with Winfrey to host...
New Australian social networking website for book-lovers
Sydney-based company Amity Agency has launched what it says is Australia's first ‘Web 2.0 community for book-lovers,' www.booktagger.com. Booktagger is intended as ‘a community where members can create a visual...
New Borders website gets off to a good start
A new website quietly launched by Borders late last year has had a very successful first Christmas, ranking as the most-visited book retail website in Australia in November and December,...
New UK digitisation report warns of underinvestment
The UK's Booksellers Association (BA) has released a new report on digitisation, Embracing the Digital Age, which is co-authored by Francis Bennett, founder of BookData, and Michael Holdsworth, the chair...
ABA launches ‘find-a-bookshop’ internet service
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that it is about to commence a national campaign aimed at encouraging book buyers to choose their local bookshop when making book-purchasing decisions.The...