‘Fish-Hair Woman’ wins Philippine National Book Award
Merlinda Bobis’ Fish-Hair Woman (Spinifex Press) has won a Philippine National Book Award in the category of Best Novel in a Foreign Language (English). Bobis is a Phillippines-born, Australia-based author and...
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US libraries to trial ebook-sharing softwareIn the US, academic library members of the Greater Western Library Alliance will participate in a pilot program for a new software product that will...
High-profile writers join Authors for the Philippines appeal
George R R Martin, Kate Atkinson, Neil Gaiman, David Nicholls and Samantha Shannon are among the high-profile authors who are offering their support for the Authors for the Philippines online...
Penguin Random House, authors donate funds for Typhoon Haiyan aid relief
Penguin Random House (PRH) and a group of British authors, called Authors for the Philippines, are donating funds towards the Red Cross aid relief effort in the Philippines for those...
Kobo to launch ebooks, devices in the Philippines
Kobo will enter the Philippines ereading market this month, with a number of its ereading devices to be available from bookselling chain National Book Store from 20 September. Kobo said in a...