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Penguin accepting unsolicited electronic submissions once a month
Penguin Australia's general publishing team has announced it will accept unsolicited manuscripts electronically once a month. The initiative, called 'the Monthly Catch', invites electronic submissions...
Penguin to launch Australian ebook 'shorts' list
Penguin Australia will launch an Australian list of short ebook-only titles this year. To be called Penguin Australia Shorts, the list will be similar to the Penguin Shorts list now available from Pen...
EU opens investigation into ebooks
The European Commission has announced it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether publishers Hachette Livre, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin and Holtzbrinck 'have,...
First OzCo Book2 grants recipients announced
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced the first three writers to receive grants through its Book2 program. Nam Le, Anna Krien and Favel Parrett will each receive a $...
EU Competition Commission to investigate Apple agency pricing agreements
The European Union (EU) Competition Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into agency pricing agreements for ebooks between Apple and five major international publishers. The commis...
Penguin boss predicts 'dark clouds' for trade in 2012
John Makinson, chief executive of international publisher Penguin, told the Reuters Global Media Summit in November that he sees 'dark clouds' on the horizon for the book industry next year. 'This is ...
Ruffino to leave Penguin
Galley Cat reports that Molly Barton will replace Dan Ruffino as Penguin's Global Digital Director. Ruffino, who was appointed to the New York-based position in 2010, was previously at Penguin A...
Penguin US pulls ebooks from OverDrive
Penguin US has confirmed that its latest titles will not be available for library lending in ebook editions via OverDrive due to 'security concerns', centred on OverDrive's recent hook-up with Amazon...
Penguin US launches self-publisher service
Book Country, a free online writing community and publishing services venture launched by Penguin in April, has now added a suite of economically priced, easy-to-use self-publishing tools for its me...
Australians on 2012 Carnegie, Greenaway longlists
The nominations for the 2012 CILIP Carnegie Medal and the 2012 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal have been announced. Australian author Sonya Hartnett has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal, presented to ...
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