Today the ALP announced a big push on IT in schools, but is there any sign of this on their websites? Nope.
(That they have several is also confusingly stupid.)
Yesterday the Liberal Party announced 9 frigging billion dollars of pork. They do have the PM’s speech transcript online, but no further detail than that.
Ludicrous. Anyone’d think they don’t want the general public to have more than the soundbites.
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Dymocks have announced today that they will start selling ebooks. Purchases are online for now, but they’ll start selling in-store as a “dump to memory card” deal fairly soon and they’re also talking up on-demand print.
Formats are Mobipocket, Adobe Reader, and Microsoft Reader. It looks like the Adobe versions are DRM-free.
Prices are ~30% lower than physical books.
They’ve also announced they’re now selling audiobooks online, but this is basically just a rebranding of Audible. Presumably the value-add here is the in-store marketing, something Audible can’t really do itself.
(Note for the non-Australians: Dymocks is one of the big book-store chains here. Unlike some I’ll refrain from naming they also have a pretty decent reputation.)
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