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Super Mario’s memorial book commemorates his 30th birthday
Super Mario has been inspiring us to do good and game more, right since we were curious adolescents. Now, the famous plumber has reached a ripe old age of 30 and there’s no better way to extend our gratitude to him than getting hold of his memorial book. Right since the inception of the game…
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Chinese authors sue Apple for $1.9 mn, claim 37 copyright infringements
Apple love playing the ‘suing game’ but when it’s played against them, I wonder how sporting they would prove to be. A group of Chinese authors have claimed that the Cupertino giants have infringed copyrights on 37 works. They are claiming 11.9 million Yuan (US$1.9 million) in compensation. The complainants comprise of nine writers, including…
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Amazon has sold 114 Kindles for every 100 books in the UK, this year
In what could easily be a hard-to-believe statistic, e-book giants, Amazon, whose Kindle range of e-book readers are tearing the scene apart, have more news. It seems that the UK recorded a sale of 114 Kindles for every 100 paperback copies sold, in 2012. Of course, the many-to-one comparison is a shocker but to good…
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Designer carves skulls out of outdated software manuals
Big-brained designer Maskull Lasserre has come up with a great way to put to rest old software manuals. Instead of having these thick bibles of technology tossed in trash cans, Lasserre uses a simple compressor too to have the pages stay in place. He then carves these software manuals into life-size human skulls! The books,…
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Apple’s Bliss electronic textbook leaked; could turn education futuristic
Paperback textbooks in schools could soon turn obsolete. With Apple’s latest leak, education in the near future could soon turn technology-soaked. Codenamed the Bliss, this device draws along the lines of the Apple Board and could turn late Steve Jobs’ vision of having electronic interactive textbooks that enabled teachers to comment and update students into…
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Mystery writer has over 100,000 books on Amazon
When it comes to being completely over the top with your publishing and writing skills, you begin gauging your awesomeness by the number of titles you have rolled out. Just why you know that there’s got to be something cool about the 100,000 titles on Amazon that are all accredited to one Lawrence M. Surhorne.…
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Kindle gradually omitting books with incest and overwhelming sexual fantasies
Looking at how novels are written and spun in to being best-sellers, I don’t think that there may be too many left on the shelf the way Amazon is happily deleting titles. It seems that a few novels that involve content revolving around sex, seem to have stirred up a controversy since they do not…
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Animated Moving Books are a good investment for Halloween
Well I loved the ‘forbidden section’ of the library in Hogwarts. Not for the damn invisibility cloak trick by Harry Potter but because of the way the books flew at him. Great work by the filmmakers. You can get close to creating the whole effect on your bookshelf. All you need to do is invest…
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DeathTroopers a Star Wars horror novel
Star Wars and horror is something no one but novelist ‘Joe Schreiber’ would have imagined. Author of No Windows No Doors and Chasing the Dead Joe would be taking this first step into uncharted territory by penning the first horror novel in the Star Wars expanded universe. No story details are out yet, but what…
