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Man Booker Prize judges to go digital this year

January 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

The Age are reporting that this year’s panel of judges for the Man Booker literature award won’t have to cope with the vast stack of paper books as they did last year. The 2011 Prize will be the first where competitors are requested to submit a digital copy as well as the paper books.

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Phillip K Dick’s Man in a High Castle to be made into a movie

October 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion

This news is 10 days old but I can’t stop myself from being very excited. From the press release: Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning novel The Man in the High Castle will be adapted for the BBC, it was announced today. Renowned English playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton (The Churchill Play, Spooks, MI-5) has been [...]

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Meet the man who will cause the death of ebooks

August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · humor

There  are days I feel I have luck like this. According to Joseph Robert Lewis, his first ebook will be published in 1 February and this will trigger a catastrophic series of events leading to the destruction of ebooks about 45 days later. (I like to get an early start on things, so today I’ll [...]

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