I can’t believe this has whipped around again already: the Perth Writers Festival 2010 is on the long weekend at the end of February. The full programme comes out at the end of January.
Perth-based Indiebooks Online is donating portions of its sales over the next two weeks (starting, however, last week) to victims of the Toodyay fires. What, people, did we exhaust our fire-victim-sympathy already? Spare some love for the WA people who lost just as much as those in the inferno over east.
Shopping for books in Australia and want price comparisons? Try booko. This is nifty as anything.
Ursula Le Guin has resigned from the Authors Guild because of Google.
And some hackers have broken Kindle so that you can read your ebooks on any device that takes open mobi format. Disclaimer: it’s illegal to break DRM in many countries. I don’t think anyone’s going to come knocking on your door to check your PC for hacking software (unless they tracked you down for actually uploading your DRM-broken books to pirate sites, which would be wrong of you), but you never know.
