Daily-Update Publishers is an Australian publishing company, now specialising in English and ESL

ESL

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 e-books.

Background

Daily-Update Publishers was founded in 2000 as an Internet “aggregator” (a gatherer of news and articles) by the current directors, Cameron Russell and Fay Russell. The following year, the Daily-Update Language Institute was established in Hsinchu

Hsinchu

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, Taiwan. A second Daily-Update school was established a few months later.

Daily-Update ESL Publishers was established in 2001 as a Taiwanese company, initially to publish materials for the two schools. A team of forty writers (see below) was commissioned to write the materials. Another forty computer programmers

Programmer

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, web developers, illustrators and layout artists (see below) put the material into book form or created computer games

Computer and video games

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.

In February 2005, Daily-Update launched 33 books at the Taiwan International Book Exhibition, and reprint rights were sold in Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Soon after that, the publishing company was moved to Australia, trading under the company name of Daily-Update Pty Ltd and using the business name of Daily-Update Publishers. The books have since been exhibited in many countries.

In 2007, the company started selling all books as e-book

E-book

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s.
In 2008, the company established DU English College.
In April 2009, Daily-Update launched an Australian Registered Training Organisation, trading as Green Skills Australia, which provides offices, government departments, universities, colleges and schools with online and classroom-based training in green skills, sustainability, leadership, report writing, workplace relations, construction, etc. Refer to RTO Courses.

Authors

Authors include:

Andrew Bennett, Merle Bowden, RB Carmelette, Carmen de Leon, Judy Gabanan, Amy Gillan, Sandra Giordano, Paul Godden-Kent, Rachel Goodchild, Stephen Goodchild, Merle Grace, Lise Hull, Benjamin Jensen, Theresa Jose, Jeff Kersh, DeL’ Aurore (Delly) Kyly, William Lauck, Leowork, Grace Lim, Alice Lin, Daniel Liu, Susan Ludwig, Lourdes Pangilinan, John Pollock, Vera Pollock, Cameron Russell, Fay Russell, Sophia Russell, Joe Scott, Maureen Scott, Virginia Smith, Lavinia Spalding, Patrick Spooner, Ranganayaki Srinivas, Bette Tetreault, Joseph Tohill & Carol Wiebe

Illustrators and Other Contributors

Computer Programmers (C)/ Illustrators (I)/ Layout Artists (L)/ Narrators (N)/ Photographers (P)/ Video Production

Video production

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 (V)/ Web Developers (W):

Matthew Adams (I), Tim Barker (W), Merle Bowden (N), Ron Bowden (C,I), Sheldon Brenneis (I), Anton Buys (L), Juan Pablo Benavides (I,C), Pat Caporuscio & actors (N,V), Jenny K. Caudill & actors (N), Haoming Chang (W), Jenny (Ying Yu) Chen (I), Natalie Coulam (I,C,L,V), Grant Davies, Endgame Studios (C), Amy Gillan (L), Paul Godden-Kent (L), Shu-Min Heng, if90 (C,I), Huang (C), Bev Herridge (I), DeL’ Aurore (Delly) Kyly (N), Alice Lin (I), Yu Chin-lin (Ling) (L), Daniel Liu (I), Ryo Chunghsi Liu (W), Richard Mack (N), Matthew MacArthur (I), Shannon McKinney (I), Michelle (I), Tanya Meeson (W), Sherina Naraine (L), Ran Persaud (C,I,N), Barbara Piatkowski (I), Tomasz Piatkowski (I), Yue-Ling Pong (Yana) (I), Jennifer Reynolds (I,L), Cameron Russell (I,L,N,P,W), Doug Russell (P), Fay Russell (I,L,N), Ian Russell (P), Sophia Russell (I,N), Tajinder Saini (I,L), Lynn Shi (I), Webdazzle (I), Yang Wong, if90 (C), Pei-Jean Yang (I,L,W), Lloyd Young (C)

Translations

The Overseas Study Guide series (guides to study in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand

New Zealand

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 and the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

) have been translated into both Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. The GEPT series also has sections translated into Traditional Chinese.

Translators: Liang-Jen Chou, Alice Lin, Daniel Liu, Tseng Chin-Min, Tseng Pei-Yu, Xu Suxia & Zeng Xu Si.

Recent Projects

Writing and Grammar Skills

Reading and Listening Skills

Spelling and Vocabulary Skills

Young Fiction

History Mysteries

Business English

Study Overseas

Recent Publications

• Russell, C., Coulam, N. & Russell, S. (2009), The Saddest Little Book ISBN 978-1-74171-064-9
• Russell, F. & Russell, C. (2008), I Know My Alphabet ISBN 978-1-74171-006-9
• Grace, M., Pollock, V., Russell, F. & Goodchild, R. (2008), I Know My Sounds ISBN 978-1-74171-089-2
• Grace, M., Pollock, V., Russell, F. & Goodchild, R. (2008), I Know My Phonics ISBN 978-1-74171-008-3
• Wiebe, C., Russell, F., Liu, D. & Lin, A. (2008), Basic Spelling Methods ISBN 978-1-74171-009-0
• Wiebe, C., Liu, D. & Lin, A. (2008), Elementary Spelling Methods ISBN 978-1-74171-010-6
• Wiebe, C., Russell, C., Lim, G. & Liu, D. (2008), Intermediate Spelling Methods ISBN 978-1-74171-011-3
• Goodchild, R., Russell, F. & Gillan, A. (2008), I Can Read ISBN 978-1-74171-013-7
• Ludwig, S. & Russell, F. (2008), People Reader ISBN 978-1-74171-016-8
• Ludwig, S., Russell, F. & Buys, A. (2008), Animal Reader ISBN 978-1-74171-017-5
• Ludwig, S. (2008), Nature Reader ISBN 978-1-74171-018-2
• Ludwig, S. & Goodchild, R. (2008), Fun First Fables ISBN 978-1-74171-020-5
• Ludwig, S. & Goodchild, R. (2008), Storytime ISBN 978-1-74171-021-2
• Russell, C. & Bursill, H. (2008), Tall Wall Tales ISBN 978-1-74171-022-9
• Pollock, J. (2008), Eastern Fables ISBN 978-1-74171-023-6
• Pollock, J. (2008), Western Fables ISBN 978-1-74171-024-3
• Pollock, J. (2008), People Who Made a Difference ISBN 978-1-74171-025-0
• Russell, C. (2008), Writing on Mars and Jupiter ISBN 978-1-74171-026-7
• Russell, C. (2008), Adventure in Adventureland ISBN 978-1-74171-027-4
• Russell, C. (2008), Writing Techniques ISBN 978-1-74171-029-8
• Russell, C. (2008), How to Overcome Writers Block ISBN 978-1-74171-033-5
• Kersh, J. (2008), Corporate English ISBN 978-1-74171-034-2
• Russell, C. (2008), East-West Management of the Future ISBN 978-1-74171-035-9
• Lauck, W. (2008), Guide to Study in the USA ISBN 978-1-74171-036-6 (also Chinese translations)
• Tetreault, B. (2008), Guide to Study in Canada ISBN 978-1-74171-039-7 (also Chinese translations)
• Goodchild, S. (2008), Guide to Study in Australia ISBN 978-1-74171-042-7 (also Chinese translations)
• Goodchild, S. & Goodchild, R. (2008), Guide to Study in New Zealand ISBN 978-1-74171-045-8 (also Chinese translations)
• Hull, L. (2008), Guide to Study in the UK ISBN 978-1-74171-048-9 (also Chinese translations)
• Russell, C. (2008), Preparing for the GEPT ISBN 978-1-74171-051-9
• Russell, C. (2008), Teachers Guide for the GEPT ISBN 978-1-74171-052-6
• Camel, PH. (2008), Pig Can Fly ISBN 978-1-74171-054-0
• Camel, PH. (2008), Ants Can Dance ISBN 978-1-74171-066-3
• Camel, PH. (2008), Bees Can Tease ISBN 978-1-74171-066-3
• Bowden, M. & Bowden, R. (2008), What Will William Do Today? ISBN 978-1-74171-057-1
• Bowden, M. & Bowden, R. (2008), What Will William Be Today? ISBN 978-1-74171-058-8
• Bowden, M. & Bowden, R. (2008), What Will William Wear Today? ISBN 978-1-74171-059-5
• Camel, PH. (2008), Your Own World ISBN 978-1-74171-063-2
• Russell, C., Russell F. & Russell, S. (2008), Edward and the Easter Bunny ISBN 978-1-74171-172-1
• Russell, S. & Russell C. (2008), Gibby the One-Eyed Cat ISBN 978-1-74171-060-1

External links

• Daily-Update Publishers - official website
• Green Skills Australia - official website
• Online English College - official website

Selected Directory References

Broken Earth Publishing Directory 2008

Directory of Australian Booksellers 2005

Katalog 2005

Australian Publishers Association Members Directory 2005-2006

Taipei International Book Exhibition Catalogue 2005

Australian Publishers Association Members Directory 2004-2005

Book Expo NYC 2005

Conference Paper - How to Teach Writing, Taipei, 2005

Taschenfuhrer Pocket Guide 2004

Katalog 2004

Beijing International Copyright Business Seminar 2004

Who's Who at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Frankfurt Book Fair

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2004 - An International Publishers' Guide