Guardian posts Hay Festival video slideshow – As the Hay Festival lifts up the tent pegs for another year (sob!), the Guardian has posted a nice video slideshow from in-house photographer Martin Argles, which nicely encapsulates the whole week. Anyone know where to get one of those glorious bookish deckchairs, shown in a lot of the shots?
Favourite publishers take away awards at Nibbies – Two of my favourite publishers took away prestigious awards at last night’s British Book Industy Awards. Local publisher Canongate Books toddled away with the Publisher of the Year award, while London-based Saqi Books walked off with the Diversity Award in Literature. Both highly deserved winners in my opinion. My hearty congratulations to you both. News of other award winners can be found at this Bookseller.com link.
COOL-ER readers set to warm up ebook market – As anyone in the UK knows, ebook reader choice is fairly thin on the ground, but it looks like a new kid’s about to arrive on the block in the shape of the COOL-ER Ebook Reader. Coming in at around the same size as the Sony PRS-505 reader, and available in a choice of eight different colours, the COOL-ER is available to pre-order now, for the retail price of £189. Launch date must be imminent too, because the website lists shipping as ‘early June’.
For our American cousins the US COOL-ER launch seems also to be imminent (retail $249.00), showing a similar shipping date on the US website for the COOL-ER.
No such luck for European residents. The EU website for the COOL-ER mentions no release date, and has still to implement a pre-order facility.
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