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‘While I agree with [Louise] Adler's call for more subsidies, the question remains where and how the resources should be invested. I remain somewhat unconvinced by a vision of a new network and ...
ACBA conference: Wiley, QUT Bookshop winners in annual awards
The most pressing concern of booksellers at the 2010 Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) conference, held last week in Sydney, was the lack of a retail platform for ebooks, according to A...
Melbourne Uni launches new discount online store
Melbourne University Bookshop has recently launched a new online discount bookstore. Bookshop Bargains was launched last month and offers shoppers heavily discounted fiction, nonfiction and academic b...
University of Adelaide to replace textbooks with iPads
The University of Adelaide's Faculty of Sciences has announced that it will provide all first year students in 2011 with a free iPad in a move to replace traditional study materials with online learni...
More concerns on Google Books metadata
There have been more concerns expressed by scholars that the metadata for Google Books is so flawed the service will be of little use for research.
Wiley reports Asia-Pacific Higher Ed revenue up 13%
Revenue in Wiley's Higher Education category for the Asia-Pacific region grew by 13% in the 2009/10 financial year. In its global annual report, Wiley said the Asia-Pacific full-year revenue of ...
Will 'the death of the book' extend to universities?
'My own peculiar worry about Academe 2020, offered with less than 20/20 foresight, may seem less catastrophic: the death of the book as object of study, the disappearance of "whole" books ...
Monash ePress to become Monash University Publishing
Monash University's publishing unit, currently known as Monash University ePress, is set to change its business plan with the launch of Monash University Publishing on 8 September. ‘From the lau...
Flat World pioneers 'freemium' textbooks
Flat World Knowledge, a three-year-old textbook publisher, has released 24 titles which are now in use by 140,000 students at over 800 universities in the United States and another 50 abroad. The co...
US university press starts ebook rental scheme
The University of Michigan Press has announced a new ebook rental program for more than 250 of its scholarly titles, allowing students or faculty to rent digital copies of the books at a discount f...
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