Archive for December, 2009

Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol is number one Christmas book

The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown’s record-breaking mystery thriller, has gained the number one spot in the Christmas book charts.

The long-anticipated follow-up to The Da Vinci Code was the best-selling book for the week ending December 19, and will therefore be in the top spot on Christmas Day.

The thriller, again featuring Harvard symbologist Robert… Continue reading

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Spielberg to take War Horse for big-screen gallop

Steven Spielberg has acquired the film rights to Michael Morpurgo’s book about a farmhand’s search for his beloved horse, which has already become a hit play with life-size puppets

War Horse, the hit play which began life as a children’s book, looks set for a gallop on the big screen after Steven Spielberg picked up the film rights… Continue reading

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Hackers break Amazon’s Kindle DRM

The great ebook ‘unswindle’

Hackers from the US and Israel say they have broken copyright protections built in to Amazon’s Kindle for PC, a feat that allows ebooks stored on the application to work with other devices.

The hack began as an open challenge in this (translated) forum for participants to come up with a way to make ebooks published in Amazon’s proprietary format display on competing readers… Continue reading | 1 Comment

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New online DVD store opened

MovieFlix.com.au has gone live!

MovieFlix.com.auEmporium Retail Group has recently launched an online superstore for buying DVDs – www.MovieFlix.com.au The site lists all the latest DVD releases, coming soon, box sets and TV series titles.

It has taken sometime to build Australia’s largest online DVD store. Sourcing well over… Continue reading

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