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Column: Books and Writing

The great old media revival

by Connor Tomas O'Brien , February 4, 2013 • 2 Comments

Have you heard of ‘dancing the flip-flop’? Robin Sloan defines it as ‘the process of pushing a work of art or craft from the physical world to the digital world and back again’. Sloan’s argument is that the best artists and makers are those who can seamlessly … Read more »

Column: From the Editors

Cracking spines and firing up tablets: My (e)reading list for 2013

by Rebecca Starford , January 22, 2013 • Leave a comment

Another year, another mountain (both real and virtual) of books to read. Checking out upcoming publications is a little like being in a candy store. Without wanting to gorge myself on literary lollies, I’ve put together a list of things I’m looking forward to reading this year, … Read more »

Publishing

Pinning down the oily fish: ebooks, publishing, and content management

by Siobhan Argent , November 27, 2012 • 3 Comments

The only editors who haven’t heard about the rise of the ebook must be those who live and work on tiny islands. Specifically, islands that have no access to the internet, libraries, media, messages in bottles or telepathic individuals. The rise of the ebook has been, after … Read more »

Books

I won’t be eating my words: narrative in cookbooks

by Carody Culver , October 8, 2012 • 2 Comments

Until this year, cookbooks had managed to evade all those doomsday prophecies about the death of the book. But in March, a Sydney Morning Herald article dared to ask the question on every worried bibliophile’s mind: is the cookbook dead? Have food blogs, cooking apps and ebooks … Read more »

Books, Reviews

Anytime, anywhere? Reviewing Penguin and A&U digital shorts

by Stephanie Van Schilt and Emily Laidlaw , June 6, 2012 • 5 Comments

With the ubiquity of smartphones and e-readers, and the wealth of content available to us – from podcasts to video on demand – it was inevitable that publishers would publish (and require) more from writers. To appease the busy, mobile and insatiable e-masses, following on from similar … Read more »

News

Readings ebookshop launched

by , January 28, 2011 • 1 Comment

Our friends at Readings and SPUNC have together launched an ebookshop filled with titles from independent publishing houses including Black Inc., Text Publishing, Scribe Publications, Wakefield Press and many more. The ebooks purchased from the site can be read on any device with a browser, including iPads, … Read more »