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Wed, 21/07/2010 - 07:13
Orion imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson has signed a two-book deal with a debut writer, after winning the rights at auction.
Publishing director Kirsty Dunseath bought UK and Commonwealth rights to two books by Shelley Harris from Jo Unwin at Conville & Walsh for an undisclosed sum. Weidenfeld & Nicolson plan to publish the...
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Wed, 21/07/2010 - 06:14Apple has recorded a profit of $3.25bn (£2.12bn) for the three months ending 26th June, up 77% on the $1.83bn profit from same period in 2009.
The profit was taken from revenue of $15.7bn, up from $9.73bn last year, of which 52% came from international sales. Gross margin has slipped slightly, to 39.1% from 40.9%.
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Apple | Catherine Neilan | digital | Financial | Home | iPad | technology -
Wed, 21/07/2010 - 06:11
A $20 e-reader has been developed, with the aim of taking the technology to some of the world's poorest countries, TechEye reports.
The Humane Reader stores books so they can be read on a TV screen. It has a 2GB SD card, and it has a USB and...
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Tue, 20/07/2010 - 08:57Amazon.com has sold more e-books than hardcovers - nearly half again as many - over the last three months, the company has revealed.
Between April and June or every 100 hardback books sold by the US retailer, 143 Kindle books have been bought. In June alone, this increases to 180 e-books. For the first six months, the company has sold...
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Tue, 20/07/2010 - 07:18The US lawsuit against document-sharing website Scribd, which claimed its copyright filtering technology is itself a form of copyright infringement, has been abandoned, Wired reports.
The suit argued the copying and insertion of a...
Catherine Neilan | Copyright | digital | legal | Scribd | Todays Picks | US -
Tue, 20/07/2010 - 06:40The 75-year-old British writer arrested in Singapore after he visited it to promote his book about its death penalty has been released.
The Guardian reports journalist Alan Shadrake faced defamation and contempt of court...
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Tue, 20/07/2010 - 06:39
Bloomsbury has won a four-way auction for a novel and debut collection of stories by an author who has been tipped by literary names such as Philip Hensher and Michel Faber.
Helen Garnons-Williams, editorial director for fiction, bought UK & Commonwealth rights to both of Lucy Wood's books from Elizabeth Sheinkman at Curtis...
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Tue, 20/07/2010 - 06:09Penguin USA has teamed by US cable network Starz to create an enhanced e-book of Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth, which pulls content from the upcoming miniseries based on the book, ...
apps | Catherine Neilan | digital | e-books | enhanced | Penguin USA | Starz | Todays Picks -
Tue, 20/07/2010 - 05:10
US bookseller Barnes & Noble could be launching a new version of its nook e-book reader, after it filed an application with the US government.
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Barnes & Noble | Catherine Neilan | digital | e-reader | nook | US -
Mon, 19/07/2010 - 14:29The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) is one of four quangos being cut by the Department for Business, the government confirmed today.
The functions of SABIP, which involves providing "strategic, independent and evidence-based advice" to the government, will be passed onto the Intellectual Property...
Catherine Neilan | funding | Government | Home | intellectual property | SABIP | UKIPO
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