Publishers are learning from music labels’ struggle to make online music profitable and combat piracy, but e-books will add value to the industry.
The South African Post Office will spend R50-million on mail security in the next financial year, chief executive Motshoanetsi Lefoka said on Tuesday.
eBay will unveil sweeping changes on Wednesday to encourage more fixed-price sellers as part of a wider attempt to transform the business.
The South African Post Office is trying to contact internet retailer Amazon.com for details on why it offers limited shipping facilities to SA.
It starts as it means to continue: ”Ever since I could think, I’ve had haemorrhoids.” And through the next 229 unflinchingly explicit pages, there is little respite. Feuchtgebiete, which translates as ”wetlands” or ”humid zones”, is the first book by 30-year-old High Wycombe-born Charlotte Roche.
The internet company Google has defied predictions of economic doom by delivering a 31% surge in quarterly profits, which appeared to vindicate the company’s claims that people will continue searching the web in a recession. Google’s first-quarter earnings jumped from -billion to ,31-billion.
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/ 21 February 2008
Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson’s space travel venture, plans to order five more spaceships and aims to turn a profit in five years from its commercial launch in 2010, an official said on Thursday. Prospective space travellers have so far placed deposits totalling more than -million for tickets that cost 000 each.
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/ 20 November 2007
Amazon.com is hoping to invigorate a nascent market for electronic books by introducing its own e-book reader with free wireless connectivity. Monday’s long-anticipated announcement comes as e-books remain a sliver of overall book sales, partly because they lack the comfort and intimacy of bound paper.