According to a recent survey by Piper Jaffray & Co. 71% would not buy a Kindle digital book reader, 71% still would not buy if price was not a pivoting factor, and 60% surveyed would not want one even if it was free.
High mileage readers were also less likely to be tempted by the Kindle digital book reader, book lovers preferring real books, libraries and swopping books between friends.
This is also echoed by research by A Zogby International/Random House survey of reading habits in the United States. Approximately 4% of those surveyed said they would purchase a digital reader, but a whopping 80% wouldn’t buy one. The general consensus of fair magnitude is 82% of readers like to curl up with a printed book.
Philip Reeve apparently took 20 years to complete Here Lies Arthur, and is in a different vein to the usual mythical King Arthur stories. Based in around 500AD, Reeve tackles it by giving it a grittier historical perspective and retells the story through the eyes of Gwyna, an orphan girl who joins Arthur’s company disguised as a boy.
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Emily Gravett picked up the illustration CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2008, for ‘Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears‘
Designer Charles Trevelyan’s Shelflife shelving system brings on a new meaning to tucking in the chair
I stumbled across this ‘zero gravity’ chair by Stokke, not particulary new, but I found it to be have an incredible visual tension and very intriguing centre of balance. Naturally you’d expect it to be well finished and ergonomic and all.
Nikita Lalwani has been announced the 2008 winner of the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for Sparkling New Fiction, for her book Gifted The Desmond Elliott Prize is a new biennial prize for a first novel written in English and published in the UK. The grand prize is £10,000 and named after the literary agent and publisher, Desmond Elliott.
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A story about a maths prodigy growing up in 1980s Cardiff. Numbers have filled Rumi Vasi’s world since she first learned to count. But it was on a trip to India at the age of 8 that her mathematical powers acquired their almost supernatural significance. When she returned home to Cardiff her destiny was sealed: she was now, and would forever be, the town’s ‘maths prodigy’. At 14 Rumi is firmly set on the path of a gifted child, speeding headlong towards Oxford University. As her father sees it, discipline is everything if the family has any hope of making its mark on its adoptive country. However, as Rumi gets older and the family’s stark isolation intensifies, numbers start to lose their magic for the young teenager: she abandons the rigid timetable of her afternoons to seek out friendship and replaces equations with rampant spice abuse. As her longing for love and her parents’ will to succeed deepen, so too does the rift between generations.
