Now open to non-members, closing date June 27th.
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Amazon E-Book Price Battle
The online bookseller is urging customers to 'vote with their purchases' and avoid electronic editions with a price fixed by publishers; read more from the Guardian...
Booker I-Phone App[eal]
The Man Booker Prize has unveiled exciting new digital plans for the prize including the first literary prize app. Read more from The Man Booker Prize website
Open University's OpenLearn Award
OpenLearn, the Open University's free learning platform, has won the ICT Initiative of the Year Award at the Times Higher Leadership & Management Awards.
The Open educational resource has hundreds of bite-sized modules including 29 pages of creative writing for students to try for free.
Orange Prize for Fiction 2011Winner
- Téa Obreht (Serbian/American) - The Tiger’s Wife; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 1st Novel
Free EBooks
Want to read books on the go for free?
At gutenberg.org and manybooks.net you're able to download out-of-copyright books from a list of thousands. Generally the text is in the original language so if you want to read Caesar's Commentaries you need to know Latin.
Available in almost all eBook reader formats, including plain text, PDF and RTF, you'll be able to enjoy free reading on the most popular readers including the new iPad2 and other tablets.
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Smashwords
Founded in 2008, Smashwords is the world’s leading distributor of indie eBooks. More than 32,000 authors, small presses and literary agents publish over 85,000 indie eBooks at Smashwords. Smashwords has released over 7,500 eBooks in the last 30 days.
Smashwords makes it fast, free and easy for the world’s authors, publishers and literary agents to publish and distribute multi-format eBooks. Smashwords distributes to major online retailers such as the Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and the Diesel eBook Store, and also distributes to the leading mobile e-reading apps such as Aldiko, Stanza and FBReader. Smashwords is based in Los Gatos, California, and can be reached on the web at http://www.smashwords.com . Visit the official Smashwords blog at http://blog.smashwords.com.
Book Crossing
The Book Crossing web site promotes itself as
letting books take on a life of their own.
The site allows members, over 830,000 of them,
to share their books by placing them for others
to find - a park bench, in a cafe, in the gym -
it's up to you.
To join is free and easy to do. Give it a go.
Landmark ruling in libel appeal.
Science writer, Simon Singh, has won the right to rely on the defence of fair comment in a libel action, in a landmark ruling at the Court of Appeal. Read more from the BBC
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