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  Australian Booki.sh launches ebook stores with five Australian booksellers

  1985 readers From the press release: Booki.sh is this week launching ebook stores with: Gleebooks (NSW) Mary Ryan (Qld/NSW) Fullers (Tas) Books for Cooks (VIC) Avid Reader Australian ebook platform Booki.sh has launched ebook stores with five iconic, locally-owned independent booksellers. With a wide range of quality digital titles now available from more local, independent bookstores,

• OverDrive Acquires Australian Cloud-Based E-Book Distributor, Seller and Reader Booki.sh

  726 readers PRESS RELEASE: OverDrive Acquires Australian eBook Company Booki.sh Melbourne Team to Accelerate the Leading eBook Distributor’s Global Growth and New Reading Technologies (Cleveland, OH) – March 5, 2012 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OverDrive Acquires Australian eBook Company Booki.sh Melbourne Team to Accelerate the Leading eBook Distributor’s Global Growth and New Reading Technologies Cleveland, OH, March 5, 2012 – OverDrive, Inc. (www.overdrive.com), the

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  Booki.sh Adds 5 Retail Partners In Australia

  716 readersAustralian eBook company Booki.sh has launched five new independent eBook stores in Australia. Booki.sh will power the eBook distribution and sales for these stores. From a specialty cookbook store to the winner of the “Best Independent Bookseller in Tasmania” award, the retail partners include: Books for Cooks, Mary Ryan’s, Fuller’s, Gleebooks and Avid Reader. The new partnerships come

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  Australia’s First All-Indie Ebook Store Launches with, um, SPUNC

  1747 readersMelbourne’s indie bookstore chainReadings debuted its ebookstoretoday – offering 120 titles through the unfortunately named Small Press Underground Networking Community (SPUNC). As far as I can tell all 120 titles are Australian and published through s who’s-who of indie publishers, including larger indies Text Publishing, Spinifex and Wakefield Press. Obviously, the catalogue is going to have

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  Booki.sh Now Providing an Alternative to NetGalley

  1497 readersBooki.sh, a cloud eBook distributor, has announced a new partnership with publishers. Australian publishers who have already signed with Booki.sh can make advance reader copies available to reviewers and booksellers. Allen & Unwin will be making d...

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  OverDrive acquires Australian ebook company Booki.sh

  1424 readers From the press release: OverDrive, Inc. (www.overdrive.com), the leading global distributor of eBooks and audiobooks, announced today it has acquired Australian eBook company Booki.sh (http://booki.sh). Booki.sh is the developer of a cloud-based platform for distributing, selling and reading popular eBooks from anywhere and on any device with a modern web browser. Booki.sh founders

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  OverDrive Buys Booki.sh

  957 readersDigital book distributor OverDrive has bought Australian eBook company Booki.sh in a deal whose terms were not disclosed. The acquisition gives OverDrive access to Booki.sh’s cloud computing platform that distributes eBooks “in the cloud.” Under the terms of the deal, Booki.sh founders/principals Joseph Pearson, Virginia Murdoch and Peter Haasz will join the OverDrive team working from their offices

• a defense of pagination

  571 readersJoseph Pearson of Inventive Labs, the developer of Monocle Reader and Booki.sh recently wrote an eloquent explanation of why we should bother to maintain some form of pagination even in the digital era. [this originally appeared on the private Read 2.0 list serve, re-posted here with permission.] I'm perplexed by the suggestion that we chose pagination

• OverDrive Launches Browser-Based E-Reader

  1629 readersOverDrive developers have been busy since the company’s March 5 acquisition of Australian e-reader technology firm Booki.sh. The e-book distributor has launched its own browser-based e-reading platform based on Booki.sh technology. The new e-reader will “provide new options for millions of readers” who access e-books through OverDrive’s partners: retailers, libraries and schools, the company said in a

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  eBooks in the Cloud – Own or Just Renting?

  606 readersBooki.sh have just announced they’ll be launching an ebook store in Australia, where the books are not downloaded but streamed from the cloud. With the implication that we’re only renting/licensing our purchases, this news has caused quite a bit of a stir with some people denouncing it as, the worst thing to happen to publishing. Of