“Owning a Kindle just got even better. Today, we’re introducing a new Prime benefit built for Kindle: The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO in a statement yesterday. “Prime Members now have exclusive access to a huge library of books to read on any Kindle device at no additional cost and with no due dates.” The creation of a Kindle library had been reported to be on the cards in early September.
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Amy Winehouse’s record company Island, has announced that a posthumous album of her material is to be released on 5th December. Lioness: Hidden Treasures is a mixture of material which has been prepared from the vaults by producwe Salaam Remi and everyone associated with the late singer is at pains to say that the album will be “faithful to her legacy”.
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Coldplay has shunned Spotify and other music streaming services preferring instead to rely on other sources to promote its new album Mylo Xyloto. Coldplay have enormous clout and have delivered another interesting twist to the trials and tribulations of the music industry by refusing to licence the new album for the streaming services.
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The boundaries of performance art have been well and truly pushed to a new level by 36-year-old performance artist Marni Kotak who gave birth to a 9 pound 2 ounce baby boy, Ajax in a home birthing centre set up in the Microscope Gallery, in Brooklyn, New York. The birth took place at 10:17am on Tuesday. The “artwork” entitled “The Birth of Baby X” was acted out in front of around 20 people though the Gallery did not confirm the precise number.
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