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
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
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
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
Emporium 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
Australian poet Robert Gray has become the first Eastern Suburbs resident to win the Waverley Library Award for his work “The Land I Came Through Last”.
The prize, had over 160 entries from all over Australia vying for the $20,000 prize money. Gray, who has won many awards for his seven poetry books, said the recognition Continue reading
Australian poet, author and TV personality Clive James is in the running for a prestigious 2009 Costa Book Award.James’ collection of poems, Angels Over Elsinore, is on the shortlist for the poetry prize given as part of the awards.
The book includes reminiscences of the 70-year-old’s Australian childhood, observations on the 21st Century and
A recent entry told of a British family’s shock when they discovered a first edition of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” on a shelf in their guest toilet.
According to Reuters; the book, which had been kept in a bathroom bookcase in England for years, fetched 103,250 pounds ($171,000) at auction on Tuesday, around twice its pre-sale estimate… Continue reading