Archive for January, 2010
The UK online payments market will experience unprecedented growth in 2010, as the total volume of transactions is expected to exceed 20 billion and the size of a typical online payment continues to fall, hitting just £70 by December 2010… Continue reading
At least three major publishers are contributing to relief efforts in Haiti following last week’s devestating earthquake. Random has donated $100,000; Bertelsmann has donated 100,000 euros; and News Corp., which owns HarperCollins, has donated $250,000. And Simon & Schuster is authorizing digital resellers—including Audible.com, Cateeslanguageworld.com, Pimsleuraudio.com, and Pimsleurmethod.com—to give away its Haitian Creole program free, from now until March 31… Continue reading
A university professor’s detailed and lyrical meditations on the ever-changing waters of the Severn estuary tonight won him the UK’s most lucrative poetry prize against tough opposition.
Philip Gross is a well established poet but far from being a household name… Continue reading
HarperCollins Publishers is negotiating with Apple Inc. to make electronic books available for the introduction of a new tablet device from Apple, according to people familiar with the situation, posing a challenge to Amazon.com Inc.
HarperCollins is expected to set the prices of the e-books, which would have added features, with Apple taking a percentage of sales. Details haven’t been ironed out.
It couldn’t be learned whether Apple will sell the HarperCollins… Continue reading | 1 Comment
Emporium has just moved into a large warehouse during the new year period to cope with the consistently high retail sales. “Our retail sales have sky-rocketed with consistent, positive growth over the last 12 months” said Ricardo, Emporium’s General Manager. The move to the large warehouse will make our processes even more efficient coupled with our state of the art supply chain management applications… Continue reading