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Digital rights management for ebooks is dead. Readers knew it couldn’t last. It was simply a matter of when publishers and retailers would realise it was unsustainable. Cutting edge Australian publishers like Pan Macmillan digital offshoot Momentum Books are leading the way by announcing they will remove DRM from their titles within months. It won’t [...]

While I have been cocooned away in chilly Canberra studying, Allen & Unwin has been busily launching two new digital lists, mirroring recent developments at fellow digital pioneer Pan Macmillan where Momentum’s titles are already making waves on bestseller lists. First up, early this month, Allen & Unwin shorts arrived. The Australian publisher has just [...]

Plenty of things have been happening in the world of ebooks over the past few weeks, but for the first time I’ve been too busy working on an exciting project of my own to post about them. That project is Momentum, a new digital-only imprint of Pan Macmillan Australia, which was announced today. As a publisher [...]