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Recently, a huge interest has been shown in The Last Living Slut. We thought to add here the publisher’s description of the book for you to see what all the commotion is about:
Honest, provocative, and vividly written, The Last Living Slut is the memoir of Roxana… Continue reading
Sales of ebooks will overtake print books within the next five years, Sony has predicted.
Sony says that ebook sales will overtake print sales within five years.
Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading business division, said: “Within five years there will be more digital content sold than physical content. Three years ago, I said… Continue reading
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Audio Book Tops Adult Audio Book List
Stieg Larsson‘s very popular The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has topped the adult fiction audiobook… Continue reading
Australian cricketing icon Matthew Hayden has a brand new food series Matthew Hayden’s Home Ground premiering on The LifeStyle Channel.
Matthew’s personal cookbook The Complete Matthew Hayden Cookbook is filled with a delicious collection of easy recipes inspired by family, friends and travel. Each chapter features… Continue reading
The American electronics giant Apple was investigating damaging allegations last night that Chinese workers making its new iPad device were subjected to such “inhumane” treatment that some of them took their own lives by jumping off factory roofs.
Exhausted KYE workers assembling Microsoft products slumped over their desks during a break in their 15-hour shift
It has been placed equal bottom in a list of 100 of the country’s biggest high street chains, matching the poor customer rating of Currysdigital.
The rankings were collected by the consumer group Which? following an online survey of more than 14,000 people in February and March.
Participants scored the stores on 15 factors including price, service, store experience and product quality.
WH Smith, which has a… Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — Even as audio versions of best-sellers fill store shelves and new technology fuels the popularity of digitized books, the number of titles accessible to people who are blind or dyslexic is minuscule.
A new service being announced Thursday by the nonprofit Internet Archive in San Francisco is trying to change that. The group has hired hundreds of people to scan thousands of books into its digital… Continue reading
After 150 years of steady sales, the romance between Heathcliff and Cathy has started flying off the shelves thanks to a generation of teenagers discovering the book through the Twilight saga – a trilogy of books by Stephanie Meyer, which have been turned into hugely popular films, staring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
The Twilight books, which have helped… Continue reading
Chain bookshops and book clubs were the biggest retail losers in 2009, with value and volume sales declining, according to data by Book Marketing Limited.
At this week’s Books and the Consumer conference, BML research director Steve Bohme said the big winners in 2009 were bargain book chains. Volume sales in the sector increased by 11% year on year and by 4% in value terms. Bargain bookshops now have a volume… Continue reading
Publishers and retailers should work together against excess discounting, in a bid to improve the perceived value of books, delegates at this week’s ASP (academic, professional and specialist booksellers) conference heard yesterday (10th March).
The 39th annual conference, which kicked off yesterday afternoon (10th March) and is being held in cloudy Bournemouth, heard a similar request made by a number of speakers. The keynote speech, made by outgoing chairman… Continue reading