Geoffrey Rush to receive record $2.9m damages in Daily Telegraph defamation case

Court hears that actor offered to settle for $50,000 and an apology but never heard back from News CorpGeoffrey Rush will receive $2.9m in damages from Sydney’s Daily Telegraph after a series of articles accusing the Oscar-winning actor of “inappropriate behaviour” towards a female actor.On Thursday the federal court heard lawyers for Rush and the Telegraph had agreed the actor would receive $2m for past and future lost earnings after tax, on top of an $850,000 payment ordered by Justice Michael Wigney in his judgment in April. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2019-05-23 07:14:44 UTC ]
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Apple ups the resolution on iTunes U and iBooks 2 for new iPad

Apple certainly had a lot of bases to cover at yesterday's new iPad unveiling, so some minor details were bound to slip through the cracks. While app suites like iLife and iWork got to bask in the Yerba Buena spotlight touting enhanced resolutions for that Retina Display, the company's decidedly... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hornby to receive sports writing award

The British Sports Book Awards is to celebrate its 10th anniversary with three new awards,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daily-deal sites offer magazines circulation growth

Daily-deal sites like Groupon have proved a challenge for restaurants that can't handle the influx of hundreds of customers redeeming deals all at once. Publishing companies, however, are built to scale their audience as needed. For the past two years, there's been a healthy amount of debate—and... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2012-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Herralde to receive LBF Lifetime Achievement Award

The London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award for 2012 will be awarded to Jorge Herralde,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Plexus to rush-release Whitney biog

Plexus is to rush-release a biography of singer Whitney Houston on 8th March in the UK, following... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones holds half-term children's 3 for 2

Waterstones has brought its 3 for 2 offer back for one week, but only on children’s books... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Retail sales see 'second worst January' since records began

UK retail sales returned to negative like-for-like growth last month, in what was described as... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brent case refused by Supreme Court

In a major blow, Brent campaigners have been refused permission to take their case against six... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fresh complaint filed in US agency model case

Lawyers acting for the plaintiffs in the case against Apple and major publishers in the US over e... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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iBooks 2: Reinventing Textbooks Or Lulu on Steroids?

While the launch of Apple’s iBooks 2, its new multimedia textbook format, and iBooks Author, the free authoring tool Apple has produced to create them, may indeed “reinvent the textbook,” there are a lot of questions to be answered before it does. That doesn’t mean that Apple didn’t put on quite... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple reveals education trifecta: iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U

At a private event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on Thursday, Apple unveiled its multi-pronged approach for cracking the higher education market with iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U. The result is an environment for creating, distributing, and consuming learning materials that... Continue reading at Betanews

[ Betanews | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New York Times, The Daily and New Yorker Top Performing Titles on Apple’s Newsstand

In 2011, one phrase defined the magazine industry: digital editions. Whether publishers were deciding to take the leap into digitizing their publications, or deciding on what app to develop next, digital was top of mind for publishers of all kinds. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘The Daily’: No Longer Just For iPads (But Not For All Androids, Either)

The Daily is finally available in Android, sort of. The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) tablet tabloid, which has been iPad only since birth, is not being offered in the Android Marketplace but instead will start life in its second OS only on certain Verizon ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charity retailers deny damaging indies

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 15/11/2011 - 09:45 The Charity Retail Association has denied it is responsible for damaging high street booksellers but said independent retailers need "greater help" in the current climate. Last Friday (11th November) the BA called on the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook 'Idiot's Guide' Inadvertently Makes Case for E-Books

Writing a how-to book in a static medium like paper about something as dynamic as Facebook is challenging at best and at worst...well...idiocy. Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kindle launches Daily Deals with discounted Ridpath

Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 14/11/2011 - 15:50 Amazon.co.uk has launched a Kindle Daily Deal promotion, selling one chosen title a day at a heavily discounted price. It began its promotion today (14th November) with Where the Shadows Lie by Michael Ridpath (Corvus)–... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Can a Nook Color 2 Dampen Kindle’s PR Blaze?

This story first appears on FOLIO:'s sister site minonline. There is no telling what exactly Barnes & Noble will be announcing at a press conference the company has scheduled for Nov. 7 in New York, but word went out to the media yesterday that something was coming next week. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Case of 'The Graveyard Book'

It is only exaggerating a little to say that many authors would kill to see the shiny gold Newbery medallion on the cover of one of their books. Which is why it is surprising that the latest edition of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book not only forgoes the medal, but the claim as well: his 2009... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jeremy Hunt to receive library petition

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 26/10/2011 - 09:15 Secretary of state Jeremy Hunt will be presented with a petition of more than 12,000 signatures tomorrow (27th October), demanding he intervenes to reverse the closure of six libraries in Brent, north London. Hunt has remained... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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FBF Day 2: rights round-up

Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Thu, 13/10/2011 - 15:15 Yet more rights deals announced at Frankfurt Book Fair today, including Piatkus' foreign rights team is having a runaway success with début novel The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne—which they are likening to Nicci French and... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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