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GOOGLE TO START CHARGING FOR ONLINE BOOKS

11:13AM, Friday 7th September 2007

Google is to start charging users for full access to online books. According to the New York Times, publishers will be able to set the price of their books and share the income with Google.

Google has declined to comment on the reports. If true, however, the move will provide the first real test of whether there really is a market for digital books.

Amazon certainly hopes so. The internet retail giant plans to launch an eBook reader in October. The Kindle is expected to cost between $400 and $500 and will wirelessly connect to an eBook store on the Amazon website.

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THE HIDDEN PRICE OF A CHRISTMAS BEST SELLER

Ben Hoyle and Sarah Clarke

Every day thousands of shoppers decide to buy a new book because Waterstone’s prominently displays or recommends it.

The reader may imagine that merit alone has inspired the country’s largest book chain to champion the volume now resting in their hands. The truth is a little less romantic.

In a confidential letter to publishers seen by The Times, Waterstone’s has set out what it expects them to pay if they want their books to be well promoted in its network of more than 300 stores this Christmas.

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IMRG: ONLINE SHOPPING - £100 BILLION AND COUNTING

IMRG SPECIAL REPORT - £100 BN SPENT ONLINE SINCE 1995

APRIL SALES UP 55%

E-RETAIL RETROSPECTIVE

British shoppers have spent £100 billion online in the 12 years that it has been possible to do so, since April 1995.

Online sales worth £3.465 billion were recorded for April 2007 by the IMRG Index, indicating that the all-time total will reach £100 billion by the time this report is published, in May.

"This is an astonishing landmark," commented Jo Evans, IMRG's MD, who directs the Index programme. "It's been obvious for a couple of decades that a secure, networked consumer marketplace would arrive and be popular, but actually witnessing its profound success and meteoric growth still takes my breath away. April's online sales were worth about the same in one month as London's West End takes in a year.

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Your name here

By Stephen Dowling

Even in the age of MySpace and blogging - where innermost thoughts can be made public without the help of an agent or publishing house - every year thousands of people in the UK start writing a novel. It is a journey few will finish, so why do they bother?

There are over 450 people crammed into a room at the Earl's Court Exhibitions Centre on a blazingly bright spring morning. Many are here because of that most potent of writer's fantasies - walking into a bookshop and seeing their name on an upright spine.

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WOTCHA! - by Kev Saunders

WOTCHA!

by Kevin Saunders

Wotcha - a contraction of the 15th century English greeting what chere be with you? Watcher n - a person who watches or observes somebody or something. A voyeur.

Say WOTCHA! to Bart Raines, who's condemned forever to be a watcher after a childhood prank left his eyelid glued to his beloved telescope. Stuck with one eye that can't not see, he s turned voyeurism into a lucrative blackmail industry.

Say WOTCHA! to former rock star, avid coke fiend, Richard "Winston" Smith who's watched by millions - among them erstwhile school friend Bart, who's orchestrating revenge for Winston's teenage betrayal through the sinister global surveillance network he calls the Daisy Chain.

Say WOTCHA! to high class whore Daisy Chains (neé Raines) and her teenage son Joe, who's abducted along with his girlfriend by a sinister Christian cult, which leaves the kids to die, hogtied and helpless in a derelict drainage tunnel slowly filling with sewage. Watched by the world's media, Winston, Daisy and Bart reunite to use fame and the Daisy Chain to save two teenage lives - and their own souls - from the filth that s about to drown them.

Wotcha! is a comic spit in the eye of born again zealots with a wink and a twinkle to the rest of us - but it s also deadly serious. Mining a rich seam of coal-black humour and sex, drugs and rock and roll, it starts on a bitter-sweet nostalgia trip and builds up to the pace of a thriller.

CONTROVERSIAL STUFF? Its themes and explicit language make this a candidate for one of those parental advisory stickers they put on CDs these days. Does that make WOTCHA! a book that people aged under sixteen shouldn't read? In the author's opinion - absolutely not. If rude words and references to sex, drugs and rock and roll upset you per se, this book s not for you. But if you believe, as I do, that a sense of humour is what separates naughty from evil , I think you might enjoy this story, laugh at the funny bits, think about the serious bits and read the redemption between the lines.

Read reviews of Wotcha! by Kev Saunders
Al Samak - by Brian Nicholson

Al Samak

By Brian Nicholson

A fast-paced, intriguing and nail-biting work of fiction about the desperate search for 'the smoking gun' in Iraq during the summer of 2002, some nine months before the invasion in March 2003.

The man with all the experience to bring you this convincing and authentic story is the writer Brian Nicholson.

On the last page you must choose - is it fact or fiction?

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Merlin built Stonehenge - by Bruce Bedlem

Merlin Built
  Stonehenge

By Bruce Bedlam

Stonehenge is probably the most important prehistoric monument in the whole of Britain and has attracted visitors from earliest times. It stands as a timeless monument to the people who built it.

The Stonehenge that we see today is the final stage that was completed about 3500 years ago, but first let us look back 5000 years.

The book is a novel with fictional characters and the backdrop is about Stonehenge. Why was it built? Who designed it? How did they move those enormous stones? These questions have been asked for centuries – but what if you could know the answers…

 Join Bruce Bedlam on a journey that goes back in time and see how our ancestors worked together in unity and spirituality to create this wonderful Monument. It was for a reason; it was structural and had a purpose. You will see that Stonehenge is more important than anyone ever thought possible.

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Hyam the cat who talked too much - by Pamela Douglas

Hyam the cat who
  talked too much

By Pamela Douglas

This is a tale of a cat called Hyam - a very special cat. In fact he is a theatrical cat, a fastidious cat, a funny cat, but most of all an adored cat.

Most famous for talking himself out of a part at an audition for a West End production - for he is an actor.

Here he tells his own story in a series of delightfully readable poems a pleasure for all age groups. Follow his adventures as he takes us on his travels through the ups and downs of theatre life and his many escapades as a sophisticated actor, a country puss and a much-loved family pet.

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Review of Hyam the cat who talked too much

See the County press article about Pam and Hyam

Visit Hyam's website


Vincent Cobb - "LEAVE A LIGHT ON..." press release

Click on the press cutting above and see what the press think of Vincent Cobb's book 'LEAVE A LIGHT ON...'


This advert was placed in a Christian publication for one of our clients, Rev. J Waddington Feather!


 

These two adverts were placed for the Children's book written by Elizabeth Webb, 'Madrigal the Secret Witch'


Wings over Nazeing by Les Kimm and Don Murfet's 'Leave It To Me' were written up by The Hertfordshire Mercury.


Another review of the wonderful books by Les Kimm


This advert was placed and a deal done plus the design, by us for our client Stella Stickland


Its never too late to put pen to paper


Vincent Cobb may have started late but he's caught on quick


Review for Madrigal The Secret Witch

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