MAY/JUNE 2014 PROMOTION: FREE ISBN and CiP ARRANGED

Those of you following us on Facebook or subscribed to this newsletter can quote code 2014DISCIP to get this freebie off your next project.

As long as you have a new project and will be using our distribution/aggregation service, you can get your National Library of Australia CiP data set-up free of charge, saving $33 inc GST. We’re also including a FREE Australian eBook Publisher ISBN number AND Thorpe Bowker entry. That’s another $49.45 inc GST value FREE—A total of $82.50 inc GST FREE.

Your ISBN number is your “International Standard Book Number” and is used to identify your book with vendors, book stores, libraries and catalogues. An ISBN number is compulsory for all ebooks Australian eBook Publisher loads for sale. Every new edition or format of your book requires a different ISBN number. This helps to distinguish versions from one another.

A CiP is “Cataloguing-in-Publication”. A CiP is a catalogue record with the National Library of Australia.

“The CiP entry includes information such as title, author, ISBN, Dewey Decimal classification notation (DDC) and subject headings. This information is put online, making it widely searchable via internet search engines or library databases. Libraries and the bookselling sector use this information to select and place advance orders for forthcoming publications.

“CiP information is widely searchable and routinely used by libraries and the bookselling sector for selection and to place advance orders for forthcoming publications.”

(National Library of Australia)

Emerging Writers Festival & The National Writers’ Conference

Head to The Emerging Writers Festival website to see what events are coming up. The hottest event of the festival is always The National Writers’ Conference which is coming up at the end of May.

“Across 31 May to 1 June, industry professionals from around Australia will converge on the iconic Melbourne Town Hall for the National Writers’ Conference. The two-day Conference is programmed to inform and inspire writers of all genres and styles.

Ranging from the emerging to the established, writers and panellists offer exciting and varied perspectives on the industry, sharing the ins and outs of their writing lives, deconstructing and discussing the art, the craft and business of being a writer.” (Source)


Sony ebooks shut down in Australia

In March we knew that Sony were closing down ebook operations in Canada and the US, but it is only recently that Sony has finally admitted they’re closing up shop in Australia too. Anyone who uses a Sony reader or Sony ebooks will have been emailed about the forthcoming changeover to Kobo. Source

Kindle App Update for iPhone & iPad

For those of you who read your Kindle books on your iPhone or iPad you’ll find that there has been an update in the last few weeks. One of the aims of the update is to make navigation within the app easier. Check out the update and let us know what you think.



Writing Tip
DASH ( – )

The dash should not be confused with the hyphen. (A hyphen joins, a dash separates.)

En & Em dashes
There are two kinds of dashes, distinguished by their width. The narrower is the en dash, so called because it is the width of the letter n. The wider is the em dash, the width of the letter m.

Here is an en dash –
An en dash is used to repace the word ‘to’. Eg. 8:30 am–9:00 am, or May 7–13.

Here is an em dash —
An em dash is used in sentences to represent an interruption and is usually used in pairs. Eg Jenny Hopkins, our babysitter—a lovely girl with good manners—comes to our house on Wednesdays.

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Ebook meta-data includes things like your book's title, contributor names (author, editor, illustrator), categories, price, blurb etc. Some of the meta-data is entered into the actual ebook file as it is created, others are only entered at the point of sale, such as with a vendor like Apple, Amazon, Kobo or Google Play. In our systems and procedures we provide all the information you need to give us the right meta-data for your project. Read more