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NOOK Simple Touch goes on sale in UK
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Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Simple Touch and NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLightBook ereader are now available to buy in the UK. Earlier this year the firm announced it would be bringing the devices to the UK via a dedicated nook.co.uk website and retail partnerships with John Lewis, Foyles, Argos and Blackwells. The two E-ink devices…
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Random House and Penguin to merge
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Publishing houses Random House and Penguin are to merge, with current owners Bertelsmann and Pearson respectively taking a 57/43% stake in the new joint venture. The two partners say they want to create “the world’s leading consumer publishing organisation”. The new Penguin Random House will not include Bertelsmann’s trade publishing business in Germany and Pearson…
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BBC London 2012 Olympics DVD
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This BBC release includes all the key moments from this Summer’s Olympic Games.
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Skyfall – a review with spoilers
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Skyfall is a largely successful attempt to give 007 back some of the status he enjoyed pre-reboot.
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Bombay Sapphire announces winning filmmakers
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Bombay Sapphire and the Tribeca Film Festival have announced the winners of their competition which have budding filmmakers a chance to have their own short film produced. As reported in June, the two enlisted Oscar-winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher (PRECIOUS) to write a script containing just dialogue between two unnamed characters. Entrants were asked assign a…
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Clip: National Geographic’s Family Guns
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Starting next week on the National Geographic Channel, Family Guns features a father & son team of military antiques who buy, sell, trade and restore rare firearms, many of which have appeared in major movies. Christian and Alex Cranmer’s weapons are some of the rarest on the planet and can fetch tens of thousands of…