“Apple, the US technology giant behind the iPad and the iPhone, is understood to be looking at backing the prestigious award, which recognises novels written by women.”
Tag: 08.11.12
Historic Naples Library Looted… By Its Director
“The library’s former director, Marino Massimo De Caro, was arrested in May, accused of systematically despoiling the library he had been charged with keeping safe, stealing books and selling them on the open market or directly to collectors.”
Magazine Circulation Drives Off A Cliff
“Like newspapers, magazines have been in a steady slide, but now, like newspapers, they seem to have reached the edge of the cliff.”
Lending E-Books? Watch Out For Authors
LendInk, a site to help facilitate e-book loans, “has effectively been put out of business by a virtual lynch mob of authors claiming it breached their rights, even though what it was doing was perfectly legal.”
Sailing Into Fall Concert Season Fully Prepared, Thanks To YouTube
In the off-season, “spend a few leisurely hours in advance getting ready for music that is new to you. In most cases, it is not difficult to track down a recording and some reading material about the piece and the composer. This way, you’ll arrive at the performance fully alert — and entitled to look ever so smug.”
Britain’s Prime Minister Slights ‘Indian Dance’ As Not Very Athletic
David Cameron: “A lot of schools were meeting [their target exercise time] by doing things like Indian dance or whatever, that you and I probably wouldn’t think of as sport.”
Digital Projectors Might Mean The End For Little Movie Theaters
“Since the first flicker of a nickelodeon, movie-theater owners have invested in many upgrades, from stereo sound to stadium seating, even while losing large portions of their audience to television, home video and the Internet. But the cost of the digital conversion is unprecedented: about $50,000 per auditorium.”
Malcolm X Actor Albert Freeman Jr., 78
The actor played Malcolm X in the 1979 TV series Roots and Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee’s 1992 Malcolm X.
Don’t Be Sad, Single People: You’re Way Better For Capitalism
“It now makes economic sense to convince the populace to live alone. Singles consume 38% more produce, 42% more packaging, 55% more electricity and 61% more gas per capita than four-person households.”
Why Big Tech Companies Fail
Sometimes, and counter-intuitively, it’s just flat-out too much success, and too much money.