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  • SingTel joins forces with MobCast for Asian ebook service

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    Asian mobile phone network SingTel has enlisted the help of UK-based ebook platform MobCast to power their digital book strategy. The pair have created skoob, the first cloud-based ebook store in Singapore, which will sit alongside SingTel’s existing digital content businesses. Customers will be able to choose from thousands of bestselling titles and will be…

  • British Library publishes three more eBook Treasures

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    The British Library is releasing further treasure from its archives in eBook format. The Luttrell Psalter, William Tyndale’s New Testament and Sultan Baybar’s Qur’an are the latest to be released under the library’s eBook Treasures iPad range. The Luttrell Psalter is regarded as one of the most important medieval books in the world, containing hundreds…

  • Simon Davis joins Country House Rescue

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    Channel 4 has announced that Simon Davis is to takeover as presenter of Country House Rescue when it returns for a fourth series in 2012. The series takes viewers behind the scenes of some of Britain’s most beautiful houses whose owners face financial ruin and are struggling to maintain their crumbling stately homes.

  • Zinio launches new digital magazine rewards programme

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    Digital magazine retailer Zinio has announced a new loyalty scheme aimed at encouraging users to buy magazines via their website. The retailer announced its new Zinio Perks scheme in an email to customers, saying it would reward them with free ‘Z-Bucks’ for “every” 5th, 10th and 25th purchase. Rewards cannot be redeemed against purchases made…

  • Top Hat comes to London’s West End in April 2012

    Top Hat comes to London’s West End in April 2012

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    76 years ago Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers starred in one of the most enduring musical films of all time – Top Hat. The movie (thanks to Irving Berlin) gave the world the classic song Top Hat, White Tie and Tails which has gone on to form the backdrop to countless comedy sketches and variety…

  • Sailcloth – interview with John Hurt and Elfar Adalsteins

    Sailcloth – interview with John Hurt and Elfar Adalsteins

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    Following our recent review of Sailcloth, we caught up writer/director Elfar Adalsteins and star John Hurt to discuss this tremendous and emotional short film. Elfar, can you tell us about the inspiration for the film? I was raised by my Grandparents and the original idea came to me two years after my Grandfather died. He…