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Apple joins the eBook debate

By admin | Published: January 29, 2010
Tech pundits are predicting the death of print within the next decade as a plethora of eBook readers – now including Apple – make print unnecessary. But does redundant mean it’s unwanted? The eagerly-awaited Apple tablet, iPad, was dropped yesterday at an exclusive invite only press conference hosted by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. While most [...]
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Colfer proves that the Author may not be dead

By admin | Published: October 12, 2009
When Roland Barthes said ‘the author is dead’ it seems Douglas Adams, like Ian Fleming, took him literally, much to the disappointment of their publishers. Why let a good thing die with the author? Living writers take up the reigns of their late contemporaries to continue the story posthumously. Not unheard of, [...]
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Müller follows minority suit to win Nobel for Literature

By admin | Published: October 10, 2009
With French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio in 2008, Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek in 2004 and Hungarian Jewish author Imre Kertész in 2002, recent winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature show a common trend towards the minority. Herta Müller, however, shows this favouratism to be more than the academy’s social conscience. As a minority [...]
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