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  • Kobo announces Best Buy US tie-up

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    eReader maker and eBook retail Kobo has struck a deal with Best Buy which will see its Vox eReader stocked at stores across the United States and online at www.bestbuy.com. Last month the company announced its readers would be available from Dutch retailer Libris Blz. In the UK the devices are sold by Asda and WHSmith.…

  • Trailer: The Cabin in the Woods

    Trailer: The Cabin in the Woods

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    Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. If you think you know this story, think again. Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods is a mind blowing horror film that promises to turn the genre inside out.

 Produced by Whedon and directed by Goddard from their…

  • All-star cast join Channel 4’s Coup

    All-star cast join Channel 4’s Coup

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    Rupert Graves, Douglas Hodge, Charles Dance and Gina McKee are joining Gabriel Byrne in Channel 4’s brand-new four-part drama series Coup. In the series Byrne plays politician Tom Dawkins, a reluctant hero who finds himself thrust into the spotlight of front-line politics when he least expects to be, and who risks everything by taking on…

  • Trailer: The Raven

    Trailer: The Raven

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    The Raven stars John Cusack as author Edgar Allan Poe who teams up with Baltimore detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Fields…

  • More UK readers adopting eBooks but spending less

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    ut that lower prices for digital books means the overall value of UK book sales is shrinking. That revelation is just one finding from the latest Books & Consumers survey, an ongoing study of the habits of British book buyers by category experts at BML, a Bowker business. According to the survey, the 48 weeks…

  • Alex Horne kicks off new national tour in March

    Alex Horne kicks off new national tour in March

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    Comedian Alex Horne is bringing his new show, Seven Years in the Bathroom, to London’s Soho Theatre ahead of a nationwide tour. Horne has spent more than a decade building shows around niche subjects like bird watching, Latin, dictionaries and quantum mechanics including Making Fish Laugh which saw him nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer…