Australian airline Quantas has custom published a series of books by bestselling authors to give to their elite milage passengers and that can be read in a single flight.… Read More

It has probably always been the case that the most influential media products are not always the most popular at any give time. The best selling album of 1965 was the soundtrack to Mary Poppins, not Rubber Soul, for instance.… Read More

Australian YA author Scot Gardner talks about the challenges of writing for an international audience while staying true to his local culture.… Read More

(via www.shawnebell.com) c|net Australia has just put up an article “Tor Books: piracy not an issue despite lacking ebook DRM” that state what I and others have been preaching for years. From the article: “One year after Tor launched its… Read More

A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed eReaderIQ as a way to track Kindle e-book prices. Several readers encouraged me to try Luzme, and so I gave them a look today. Their big advantage over eReaderIQ is that Luzme allows… Read More

A social entrepreneurship company based in Australia, Mailbooks for Good, has recently launched a literary-minded project that combines good design and a simple but strong idea with the joy of philanthropy. The company’s tagline, “Re-gift the gift of reading,” does… Read More

There has been a flood of new tablet editions of photography magazines released lately – whether print publishers are starting to feel some pressure to get their magazines into the Apple Newsstand is hard to say, but for readers who… Read More

The German eBook company Txtr has opened five new eBook stores around the globe, expanding its platform into the English-speaking countries Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Canada. Good E-Reader has the story: txtr has launched in Australia with… Read More

Microsoft announced this week the expansion of the Surface RT and Surface Pro tablet availability on extra markets out there. The Surface RT will come to Malaysia on April 25th and it will reach Mexico by the end of May.… Read More

[Press Release]txtr continues international expansion across English-speaking markets…Berlin-based eReading company txtr now has local online stores in the main English-speaking countries worldwide. New Web stores have been most recently launched in Australia (au.txtr.com), New Zealand (nz.txtr.com), South Africa Read More

Well, as one gives up the ghost (Books on Board…) another comes along to try and make an honest penny from selling ebooks to us.  The latest to join the fray is the well known (in Australia) chain of Read More

The Los Angeles-based maker of replica editions has landed the Australian magazine publisher nextmedia Pty, the special interest publisher founded in 2008. The publisher has over 30 titles under its name and today has launched universal apps for many of… Read More

The publishing team behind a series of magazines under the M2 Magazine umbrella has today launched a new tablet edition, Capital Australia. The digital magazine is available inside the Apple Newsstand free of charge – one can download one of… Read More

The publishing team behind a series of magazines under the M2 Magazine umbrella has today launched a new tablet edition, Capital Australia. The digital magazine is available inside the Apple Newsstand free of charge – one can download one of… Read More