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  Does Digital Level the Geographic Publishing Playing Field?

  1638 readersYes, the digital world offers equal opportunity for all. By Edward Nawotka Panel discussion featuring New Zealand author C. K. Stead, Frankfurt Book Fair 2011. (Photo: Fernando Baptista) I’ll admit it, we’ve run a lot of stories about New Zealand recently: today’s feature story about the PANZ conference, last week’s “NZ’s Gecko Press: Translating the World’s Top Kid’s Lit,

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  UK publishers call for investigation of on-line retailing

  2152 readersAs Amazon purchases the UK-based on-line bookstore The Book Depository, UK publishers are up in arms over the move. Already none too happy with Amazon—just look at how quick they were to jump on the agency pricing bandwagon for e-books, only a few years after ditching a century-long similar price control on printed books—both large

• New Zealand’s Kiwa Media Pioneers Multi-lingual, Multi-media (and Maori) E-books for Children

  641 readersBy Edward Nawotka AUCKLAND: Looking for an enhanced e-book that you can read in English, Spanish, Japanese, Italian Chinese or . . . Maori? Kiwa Media, a software developer in Auckland, New Zealand has has what you need. Throughout 20...

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  Four Books to Watch from New Zealand

  1212 readersNew Zealanders and informed others, what would you recommend for the international reading audience? By Alex Mutter “We’re generalists,” said Kevin Chapman, the President of the Publishers Association of New Zealand, during a presentation last month at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where New Zealand was the Guest of Honor. The event showcased select new titles from four

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  Metadata Perspectives Conference 2011

  2645 readersMetadata is the single most important tool publishers can use to market and license products and generate sales in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Learn how to develop effective metadata strategies at this Frankfurt Academy Conference hosted by Ed Nawotka, editor-in-chief of Publishing Perspectives. Read more: List of Metadata Resources for Publishers Metadata Perspectives: Successful Metadata Strategies 13 October 2011 9:30

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  The European Digital Avalanche

  1581 readers By Pieter Swinkels, Director of Publishing and Industry Relations EU, Kobo Last week at the EDITECH conference in Milan I witnessed the onset of the ebook avalanche in Italy. Only six months earlier Italian publishers were talking about the emerging global ebook world as a rather American phenomenon that European publishers could comfortably ignore to brood

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  New Zealand: A Vibrant Book Business at the Bottom of the World

  707 readersThe book business in New Zealand has proven resilient despite global economic tremors. E-books have had little impact as yet. By Jillian Ewart New Zealand has a population the size of just 4.5 million distributed over two dramatically beautiful and rugged islands in the south of the Pacific Ocean. “We are the smallest developed economy on earth

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  Wheelers Adds 400 New Local NZ eBooks to Their Collection

  1030 readersIn this age of the giant eBookstores its important to make sure that local books don’t fall through the cracks. Wheelers, a library and school book distributor based in Auckland, NZ, has recently expanded their ebook selection. In addition to eBooks from most major publishers, they now stock 400 eBooks originally written and published in new

• Mobility Shifts Conference at The New School

  1447 readersI think this is going to be a terrific conference. MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit The New School in NYC October 10-16, 2011 The New School presents the second event in its Politics of Digital Culture conference series "MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit." Comprised of a conference, hands-on workshops, project demonstrations, exhibitions and a theater performance featuring youth and

• Mobility Shifts Conference at The New School

  578 readersI think this is going to be a terrific conference. MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit The New School in NYC October 10-16, 2011 The New School presents the second event in its Politics of Digital Culture conference series "MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit." Comprised of a conference, hands-on workshops, project demonstrations, exhibitions and a theater performance featuring youth and