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Samsung launches Galaxy Tab with Kobo e-reader
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Tab, a competitor tablet computer to Apple's hit iPad, and it is shipping with some Canadian content: the Kobo e-reading application.
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Gaiman's The Sandman planned as TV series
Neil Gaiman's comic The Sandman is to be adapted as a TV series, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Former U.K. PM Blair slams Brown in memoir
Former British prime minister Tony Blair's long-awaited memoir hit bookshelves in Britain on Wednesday with some harsh words for his former lieutenant and successor, Gordon Brown.
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B.C. adds $7M to Arts Council budget
B.C. Culture Minister Kevin Krueger has suddenly found another $7 million for the B.C. Arts Council, which awards grants to artists and cultural institutions.
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J.K. Rowling donates $16M for MS research
Author J.K. Rowling has donated the equivalent of $16.4 million Cdn to help set up a centre to research multiple sclerosis, the disease that led to her mother's death.
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Anne Frank tree topples in Amsterdam
A monumental chestnut tree that cheered teenage diarist Anne Frank while she was in hiding from the Nazis has toppled over, the Anne Frank Museum says.
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James Patterson world's best paid author
Thriller author James Patterson has topped a Forbes.com list of the world's best paid authors with an income of $70 million US last year.
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Scottish poet Edwin Morgan dies at 90
Poet and translator Edwin Morgan, who was named Scotland's first national poet - the Scots Makar - in 2004, has died at the age of 90.
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U.K. literary critic Frank Kermode dies
British literary critic Frank Kermode, who was instrumental in creating the London Review of Books, has died at age 90.
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Vonnegut legacy to be preserved in library
Three years after his death, pieces of Kurt Vonnegut's life are coming together in his hometown in a new library that will also be a museum devoted to his legacy.
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