London: Celebrated writer JK Rowling prefers the romance of the printed book rather than e-books even though she has recently acquired a tablet that has a library of over 200 books. Speaking to journalists and others at a book reading event at the Southbank Centre here, Rowling said that until some time ago she was "hesitant" to use e-books, because "I didn't understand it, but finally I got it." She...
03:40 AM, Oct 01, 2012
London: Salman Rushdie believes literature has lost much of its influence in the West, and movie stars like George Clooney and Angelina Jolie have taken the place of Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer when it comes to addressing the big issues. The British author, who has just released his account of 10 years in hiding after an Iranian fatwa was declared against him in 1989, believes the 'Arab Spring' uprisings...
01:22 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Author JK Rowling's 'The Casual Vacancy' published by Hachette sets a new record for sales for an adult hardback in India. Rowling already holds the record for children's books with her Harry Potter series. The Casual Vacancy is the first ever high-security book to be printed locally in India. In India the book was released under high security at 2:30 pm. There is an Indian character, Parminder Jawanda, in Rowling's...
03:47 PM, Sep 27, 2012
So look, here's the thing: This. Is. Not. A. Children's. Book. If you're looking for what made Harry Potter magical - Wizards! Spells! Flying Broomsticks! - you're not going to find it. If you're looking for what makes JK Rowling magical - emotion, heart - you will. 'The Casual Vacancy' is the first novel written for adults from Rowling, the successful-beyond-belief author behind the 'Harry Potter' series about the young...
02:40 PM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: HCL has launched its first HCL Ultrasmart ME ultrabook - the Ultrasmart ME Series 3074 - in India. Powered by a 3rd Generation Intel Core i3 processor, the ultrabook has a 14-inch WXGA LED backlit display with a resolution of 1366x768 pixels. It is priced at Rs 51,990 onwards. The ultrabook offers hybrid drive version - a combination of SSD and SATAII HDD. It comes with 4 GB...
02:21 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Beijing: A high school in China has equipped its senior students with iPads in a bid to replace books and help students in their studies, China Daily reported. Jinling High School in downtown Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu, has provided 30 students with the Apple tablets to reduce the burden of school bags from at least five kg to less than one kg while saving book expenses by thousands of yuan...
02:39 AM, Sep 19, 2012
I have said it before and I will say it again: If you love cats or animals or own cats or pets, then, The Wildings by Nilanjana Roy will be a perfect read for you. Even if you dont own pets, it will. The Wildings by Nilanjana Roy was probably not something which I had not read earlier. There are books about talking animals and their lives and how they...
12:21 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: The latest batch of the NCERT textbooks is out, but this time, without six cartoons from four political textbooks. This comes after the Thorat committee's recommendation that 22 cartoons be removed from the textbooks. The cartoon of Ambedkar that sparked off protests in Parliament has been replaced with his photograph. RK Laxman's cartoon depicting the anti-Hindi agitation and four other cartoons that represented political developments have also been...
01:59 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Mumbai: Chinese computer-maker Lenovo, which also sells the IBM brand of PCs, launched ultrabook named ThinkPad X1 Carbon and said it plans to scale up its Think range of exclusive retail outlets to 30 in the domestic market. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon, priced at Rs 85,000, weighs just under three pounds. "Currently, we have two exclusive Think Business Stores at Jaipur and Pune. We put up only Think products in...
10:40 AM, Sep 11, 2012
The decision comes in the wake of the firing at a Wisconsin gurudwara (Sikh temple of worship) that left seven Sikhs dead. ...
08:19 AM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: The 18th Delhi Book Fair that kicked off in the capital over the weekend has more than just books to offer to little bookworms. From vocabulary building sessions to interactive books - there are many mind building activities for children this year. Lallan Singh, Grolier, Divisional Manager, says, "With time and with education, people have realised that education is important for kids and specially the growth in children's...
03:02 PM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: Announcing its association with Intel and Microsoft, Asus today has launched Intel's 3rd generation core processor-based S series ultrabooks and the F series notebook. Asus S Series offers a range of ultrabooks which is enabled with in-built optical drive. Engineered with Intel's Ivy Bridge processor and weighing 2.4 kgs, the S Series is claimed to have a longer battery life. The S Series is claimed to offer up...
04:51 PM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: Fujitsu has launched two new ultrabooks - Lifebook U772 and Lifebook UH572 - in India. The 14-inch Lifebook U772 weighs approximately 1.4 kg and is 15.6 mm thin. It comes with a red or silver shell and frameless display. It offers optional built-in 3G/UMTS or 4G/LTE support to guarantee mobile connectivity even when outside the range of Wi-Fi hotspots. Its prices start from Rs 75,900. On the other...
05:17 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Brazilian lyricist and novelist Paulo Coelho turned 65 on August 24, 1947. He is one of the most widely read authors in the world. Coelho's 1988 allegorical novel 'The Alchemist' became one of the best-selling books in history. The author's sales total at least 300 million in 150 countries. On Coelho's birthday, we've put together some quotable quotes, mostly tweets that make you say...what?! - We may not know what...
03:08 PM, Aug 24, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc is buying the Frommer's line of travel guidebooks, the latest move to amass a trove of publishing content that could strengthen the No. 1 Internet search company's push to become a major online travel broker. The sale by John Wiley & Sons Inc comes nearly a year after Google's $151 million purchase of Zagat Survey, which offers reviews of restaurants, hotels and nightclubs in cities around...
10:29 AM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched a new notebook - the Elitebook 2170p - in India at a starting price of Rs 69,000. The notebook has a 11.6-inch dispaly (measured diagonally), and weighs 1.31 kgs. The notebook is said to offer up to eight hours of battery life. It is claimed to be the smallest and lightest weight Elitebook. The Elitebook 2170p offers a full-sized keyboard " with optional backlit...
12:50 PM, Aug 13, 2012
In his new book, 'What Young India Wants', Chetan Bhagat talks about the youth in the present times and what it wants. ...
11:58 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Beijing: Lenovo unveiled a lighter, quicker ThinkPad notebook computer to appeal to customers who like the convenience of tablets and smartphones. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon will go on sale later this month, the Chinese computer maker said. Lenovo Group acquired the ThinkPad brand with IBM Corp.'s personal computer unit in 2005. Lenovo passed Dell Inc. last year to become the second-largest PC manufacturer after Hewlett-Packard Co. The latest ThinkPad has...
11:25 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: NCERT on Monday held "exhaustive" deliberations with the textbook development committee on political science on the issue of removal of certain cartoons and objectionable content from CBSE textbooks, a final decision on which is expected on Tuesday. The meeting comes amid indications that the controversial cartoons on BR Ambedkar and the one relating to anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu could be removed. "There were exhaustive deliberations and a...
03:29 AM, Jul 31, 2012
