Microsoft’s announcement, nothing to do with Barnes & Noble
June 19th, 2012 - 8:35 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, June 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The scheduled announcement that Microsoft is planning to issue later today has generated increased media attention. Rumors have claimed that the company would announce today the ... Read more...
Posted in Technology Industry News |
Steve Jobs’ biography to release Oct 24
October 7th, 2011 - 2:23 pm ICT by IANS
San Francisco, Oct 7 (IANS) US publisher Simon & Schuster said Thursday it will advance the release date of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' official biography to Oct 24.
It ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Budding authors getting into print with e-books
February 11th, 2011 - 5:54 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 11 (IANS) Budding writers know how difficult it is to find publishers, but the more enterprising among them are turning to e-books for publication.
The rise of e-readers, for ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Groupon wants to help Barnes & Noble
February 5th, 2011 - 12:15 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Feb 4 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Groupon is on a mission to save Barnes & Nobles. Groupon is offering Barnes & Nobles’s gift cards for half their value.The plan is to get ... Read more...
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Google plans to sell e-book from next month
May 6th, 2010 - 1:44 am ICT by IANS
Washington, May 6 (IANS) US internet search software giant Google plans to sell digital edition of books in late June or July, throwing the firm into a battle that already involves Amazon.com, ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Hacker Of Credit And Debit Cards Gets Imprisonment Of 20 Years
March 29th, 2010 - 8:48 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
March 29, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): A computer hacker from Miami, who coordinated one of the biggest thieveries of credit and debit card numbers in American history, was, on Thursday, ... Read more...
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Charles Dickens’ toothpick sells for more than $9000
December 16th, 2009 - 11:43 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York City, Dec 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A toothpick, which once belonged to the legendary author Charles Dickens, has sold for a whopping $9,150. It was an ivory and a gold toothpick ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
The world is the market for e-book readers (Special)
November 29th, 2009 - 1:06 pm ICT by IANS
By Shobit Arya
The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is a novelty, a fad. These were the words uttered famously by a president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Sarah Palin’s retainer for ‘Going Rogue’ is $1.25 million
October 29th, 2009 - 2:40 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Anchorage, Oct 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin revealed on Tuesday that she has received at least $1.25 million for her upcoming memoir "Going Rogue."A disclosure statement ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Wal-Mart & Amazon indulge in book price war
October 20th, 2009 - 1:15 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Chicago, Oct 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Wal-Mart and Amazon are slugging it out by reducing prices on best sellers and other top thrillers. The prices of many of the highly anticipated books ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Books on markets meltdown in high demand
October 14th, 2008 - 1:38 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Oct 14 (IANS) As bookshop chains rush to create front-of-store displays featuring finance or personal finance titles to address widespread public anxiety, Charles Morris's "The Trillion Dollar Meltdown", which predicted ... Read more...
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