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Publishers slow to plug into e-books (The Age)
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AUSTRALIAN publishers have been given until May to get their e-book houses in order if they want to join the digital revolution.

A partnership between Canadian digital book wholesaler Kobo and REDgroup - owner of booksellers Angus & Robertson and Borders - has brought new urgency to Australia's race to go digital.
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At least a dozen new hand-held devices are expected to hit the Australian market this year and spark a surge in demand for e-books.

But only two leading publishers have converted Australian print books to digital form in significant numbers - Allen & Unwin has a library of 1500 titles, while Pan Macmillan Australia has 500 titles ready to go digital.

Even the National Library of Australia had digitised only 2366 books among its vast collection by July last year.
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