It’s been a bad week for New Zealand publishing. On Tuesday, Pearson Education announced the imminent closure of its New Zealand office. The global publishing giant is restructuring to focus on… Read more >
May 30, 2013 business, Educational publishing, news 36 Read more >
A company which believes it is Australia’s first digital-only trade publisher launched last week with a roster of titles from five Australian authors. Really Blue Books publisher Sarah Bailey sees an opening… Read more >
Australian bookselling icon Dymocks last week launched a self-publishing service called D Publishing. While the service looks fine, its publishing contract is dreadful. Even if you’re not in Australia, you… Read more >
December 16, 2011 analysis, business, copyright, news 11 Read more >
Amazon’s loving its Kindle owners. The retail giant is letting Kindle owners who sign up for its US$79 Prime service borrow an ebook each month for no extra fee. Prime… Read more >
November 3, 2011 Amazon, ebook lending, Kindle, libraries, news 1 Read more >
When the mightiest online retailer in the world, Amazon, has to bow to Apple’s demands and cut ties to its ebookstore in the Kindle app, we know we’re facing a big… Read more >
July 27, 2011 app store, Apple, bookselling, business, iPad, iphone, Kindle, kobo, news 10 Read more >
The Association of American Publishers released its US book sales figures for February 2011 and it looks like 2011 will be the year the trade book business has to finally… Read more >
April 19, 2011 analysis, bookselling, business, news 10 Read more >
For those who want to see the new Kobo eReader in action, take a look at the video review I’ve just done for bookTV.nz. Kobo eReader is the ebook reader… Read more >
New Zealand’s largest book chain Whitcoulls today launched the country’s first commercial ebook store. It’s the fruit of an investment by Whitcoulls’ parent, the Red Group, which late last year… Read more >
May 27, 2010 ebook readers, kobo, news, reviews 4 Read more >
I’ve been working on a project called BookTV.nz, a book video channel on YouTube with reviews and author interviews done in a web-friendly style, easy to share to spread the… Read more >
Google has confirmed that it plans a “June or July” launch for its long-signalled foray into the ebook selling business. Called Google Editions, it introduces a major new competitor into… Read more >
May 5, 2010 ebook formats, Google, Google Editions, news 7 Read more >