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  • Amazon announces ad-supported Kindle

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    US shoppers can now save themselves $25 off the price of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader by agreeing to be fed adverts for special offers and sponsored screensavers on the device.

  • Kobo announces local European stores

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    Multi-platform ebook retailer Kobo used yesterday’s start of the London Book Fair to announce plans for local European stores tailored to offer ” a rich assortment of local content, merchandised to the tastes and preferences of readers across Europe.”

  • Trailer: Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman in Black

    Trailer: Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman in Black

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    Daniel Radcliffe returns to the big screen in The Woman in Black, a classic ghost story which tells the tale of Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe), a lawyer who is forced to leave his young son and travel to a remote village to attend to the affairs of the recently deceased owner of Eel Marsh House.

  • ITV secures UK rights to major new dinosaur documentary

    ITV secures UK rights to major new dinosaur documentary

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    ITV has secured the rights an animated 90-minute documentary which follows a young dinosaur as he embarks on a 1000-mile migration to escape a polar winter that brings freezing temperatures, starvation and 4 months of perpetual night.

  • ebook borrowing comes to Blackberrys

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    Blackberry owners can now borrow eBooks from their local library thanks to a new app from OverDrive, the company which powers lending services for many UK and international libraries.

  • ITV announces Titanic cast

    ITV announces Titanic cast

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    ITV has announced that Linus Roache, Geraldine Somerville, Celia Imrie and Toby Jones are to head the cast of its upcoming Titanic drama which is being penned by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.