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The new Kindle has an electronic-ink screen with 50% better contrast, and offers 20 percent faster page turns, up to one month of battery life, a twofold storage increase to 3,500 books, built-in Wi-Fi, a new graphite colour and more – all for only GBP 149, and still with free 3G wireless – no monthly bills or annual contracts.
Amazon has also introduced a new addition to its family of portable reading devices – Kindle Wi-Fi. Readers who don’t need the convenience of free 3G wireless can now enjoy the new generation Kindle for the lower price of only GBP 109.
And for the first time, Kindle devices are available at Amazon.co.uk. The all-new Kindle and Kindle Wi-Fi are now available for pre-order at www.amazon.co.uk/kindle3G and www.amazon.co.uk/kindleWi-Fi, and will be dispatched from the U.K. to customers from August 27.
Kindle has been the bestselling product on Amazon.com for two years running, and is also the most-wished-for and most-gifted items on the site. With the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read – not to mention the lowest prices of any e-bookstore in the UK – Amazon will launch the new UK Kindle Store on August 27. Customers will be able to choose from over 400,000 books, including New Releases and 87 of 100 Nielsen UK Bestsellers. Over 1 million free books are also available to read on Kindle.
Hot Diamonds we are gearing up for a busy period as we re-launch the hotdiamonds.co.uk website and launch our September campaign “Upload Your Story”. We are giving Hot Diamonds customers the chance to upload pictures and words to tell us a story as we ask them “Do you remember your first time?”. This year we are the offical Jeweller to BAFTA and we will be using this association as they comission up and coming British acting and directing talent as they turn our lucky winners story in to a short film!
So that you are prepared for our new look, we have already updated all of out banners! you can find them in the usual place.
Currently at hotdiamonds.co.uk we are giving away an exclusive celebrity BAFTA goody bag. With clothing from All Saints, cosmetics from MAC, Tattinger champagne and of course a silver and diamond necklace from Hot Diamonds, it is a must win prize! Everyone who spends £200 or more at hotdiamonds.co.uk is entered in to the prize draw which will be made on August 6th 2010.
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Our members can have access to a huge range of movies to watch online at no extra cost, anytime they like! You can watch via your PC and your Internet enabled TV, including great films such as:
The Prestige
From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight”), comes a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Let The Right One In
Oskar meets a girl called Eli, who gives him the strength he’s been looking for. But Eli is not all she seems to be…
The Matrix
The first movie in Larry and Andy Wachowski’s MATRIX trilogy, all 3 are free to our members
Constantine
Constantine tells the story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), who has literally been to hell and back.
The Bodyguard
A former secret service agent is now a bodyguard for a pop superstar turned actress
The Shining
An unforgettable masterpiece, a psychological supernatural thriller featuring outstanding performances from Nicholson and Duvall–and a cast of dead twin girls and suicidal ax-murdering ghosts, among other bloodcurdling figures.
The Majestic
Jim Carrey plays an amnesia victim who, mistaken as a missing, favorite-son war hero by a tiny California town, restores and reopens the local abandoned movie palace discovering love and rebuilding his own life along the way.
Eyes Wide Shut
Stanley Kubrick’s final film is a mature, highly intelligent, thrilling masterpiece of sexual obsession and marital (in)fidelity. Tom Cruise stars a doctor who becomes obsessed with a sexual fantasy that his wife, Nicole Kidman, confesses to him.
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Groupon runs a different deal every day in the areas of spas, leisure, restaurants, coffee shops, cinemas, sports activities etc. We operate in the main cities throughout a number of European countries and the U.S.A.!
Each day we feature a great deal at an unbeatable price. Whether it’s 90% discount on famous coffee brands, 2 for 1 at an exclusive restaurant, or discounted treatments at a heavenly health spa – Groupon ensures that its users live their city for less.
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Yesterday BBC Radio 4’s consumer affairs program You and Yours included an item on LoveFilm.com, the online DVD rental and movie streaming service. It included an interview with the company’s CEO Simon Calver, as well as myself talking about the popularity of the site. You can listen to the interviews on iPlayer here, but I thought that I’d share some of the key finding on the blog:
• Since taking over Amazon’s DVD rental business in early 2008, UK internet traffic to LoveFilm.com has increase by 150%.
• LoveFilm.com is now one the top 100 websites in the UK, and last month the 11th most popular online retailer (putting it ahead of a number of big names including: B&Q, ASOS, Apple, Top Shop, Currys, and HMV).
• It is also the second most visited movie website in the UK after IMDB.
• LoveFilm.com is particularly popular with young professionals and therefore receives much of its traffic from London and other big cities such as Manchester and Glasgow.
• Unlike most other retailers it isn’t particularly reliant on search engines for traffic (they account for just one-fifth of visits vs. two-fifths for a typical retailer).
• Instead, other key sources of visits are social networks (it is the 8th most popular retailer visited after Facebook), email and entertainment websites – with much of the former traffic coming via advertising, affiliates and refer a friend schemes.
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up in the Air
Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon – Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
Actress in a Supporting Role
Penelope Cruz – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Mo’Nique – Precious
Animated Feature
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up
Art Direction
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
Cinematography
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon
Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria
Directing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Up in the Air
Documentary Feature
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food Inc.
Which Way Home
Documentary Short
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth
The Last Truck: Closing of GM Planet
Rabbit a la Berlin
Film Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Foreign Language Film
Ajami
El Secreto de Sus Ojos
The Milk of Sorrow
Un Prophete
The White Ribbon
Makeup
Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria
Music (Original Score)
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up
Original Song
Almost There – The Princess and the Frog
Down in New Orleans – The Princess and the Frog
Loin de Paname – Paris 36
Take It All – Nine
The Weary Kind – Crazy Heart
(Short Film) Animated
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Short Film (Live Action)
The Door
Instead of Abracadraba
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants
Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up
Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
District 9
An Education
In The Loop
Precious
Up in the Air
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
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New day, new deals… Until Sunday, December 13, Amazon.co.uk will be running a series of one-day sales, with some great deals on selected items. Each day there’ll be a new set of deals, so be sure to keep visiting the page.
You’ll find a whole host of great deals in every department. Check out our hand-picked selection, below:
Music
Spend more than £5 on CDs at Amazon.co.uk between now and December 31, and we’ll apply a credit to your account that you can spend on MP3s:
- Spend £5 on CDs, get £1 of credit to spend on MP3s
- Spend £10 on CDs, get £2 of credit to spend on MP3s
- Spend £15 on CDs, get £3 of credit to spend on MP3s
This offer, available here, is only open to UK customers. We will email you when the credit has been applied to your account. See terms and conditions for full details.
MP3
MP3 Albums from £2.99 and Friday 5–5 albums for £5! There are thousands of titles for you to promote. Check them out here.
A cool green action car that can shoot powder-filled capsules is among the toys most likely to fly off the shelves this Christmas, retailers said today.
Kevin Levin’s DX Action Cruiser, from the Ben 10 Alien Force by Bandai, is one of 12 toys highlighted by the Toy Retailers Association (TRA) as one of their Dream Dozen for 2009.
TRA chairman Gary Grant said the industry had “turned the latest trends into innovative and creative toys” for Christmas.
“The list also reveals a trend towards nostalgic characters and brands which have been updated with a modern twist,” he said.
“Consumers are reverting back to heritage brands which will last longer than the Christmas season.”
The Dream Dozen includes Monopoly City, a modern-take on the traditional boardgame, cute hamsters from Go Go Pets and a multimedia digital camera.
The TRA also compiled separate “dream dozen” lists for the girls’, boys’, pre-school, games, construction and creative categories.
Animals will dominate the girls’ wish-list, with the Go Go Pets Hamsters, Pony in My Pocket Pony Arena, FurReal Friends Lulu my Cuddlin’ Kitty and Fluffy goes Walkies all featuring in the top 12, the TRA said.
Animagic Peanut My Playful Pup, marketed as “the closest you can get to having your very own real-life puppy”, is also expected to be among the best-sellers.
Dolls are also expected to be popular, with relative newcomers such as Baby Annabell 2009, Sally Doll, and Cicciobello Love ’n’ Care going up against traditional favourites including Barbie & The Three Musketeers Corinne Doll and the Sylvanian Families.
For boys, fast cars and battle sets are expected to fly off the shelves as parents snap up the likes of the Ben 10 Alien Force cruiser, the GX Racers, which can be sent across tightropes to perform stunts, and the Battle Strikers starter set.
Star Wars and Transformers action figures are also expected to be key features of Christmas stockings this year.
For pre-school children, much-loved faces like Thomas the Tank Engine and Postman Pat will be as popular as ever, while the Waybuloo Peeka Lau Lau offers youngsters the chance to play peeka as if they were on the CBeebies programme.
The KidiZoom Multimedia Digital Cameras from VTech will appeal to budding photographers while the snoring Night Night Timmy is expected to be popular at bedtime.
Monopoly City, Jenga and Rubiks 360 are touted as potential best-sellers in the games category while Star Wars dominates the construction category with its Echo Base and Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter.
And for the budding creative-types, Doodle with Glo Doodle, a reusable glow-in-the-dark surface, and the Crayola Glo-Station will be among the must-have toys, as is the Let’s Cook Fruit Factory which enables children to turn fruit into juice, smoothies or ice cream.
The Dream Dozen Christmas toys for 2009, in alphabetical order, are:
:: Bakugan Battle Pack, Spin Master (RRP £19.99)
:: Battle Strikers starter set, Mega Brands (RRP £9.99)
:: Ben 10 Alien Force Kevins DX Action Cruiser, Bandai (RRP £29.99)
:: Bendaroos Mega Pack, Spin Master (RRP £19.99)
:: Go Go Pets Hamsters, Character Options (RRP £9.99)
:: GX Racers Tightrope Terror, Flair (RRP £22.99)
:: Kidizoom Multimedia Digital Camera, V-Tech (RRP £49.99)
:: LEGO Games Minotaurus, Lego (RRP £17.99)
:: Monopoly City, Hasbro (RRP £24.99)
:: Princess Peppa’s Palace, Character Options (RRP £39.99)
:: Sylvanian Families Caravan, Flair (RRP £44.99)
:: Transformers Movie 2 Voyagers Figures, Hasbro (RRP £22.99)
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Details Author: Dan Brown Publisher: Transworld ISBN: 9780593054277 Format: Hardback – 309 Pages
Dan Brown’s (Digital Fortress, Deception Point) eagerly anticipated new novel, The Lost Symbol, is the third to feature Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon, following 2000′s Angels & Demons and 2003′s The Da Vinci Code. The best-selling author is an international phenomenon with over 81 million copies currently in print and is published in 51 languages around the globe. If Hollywood sources are to be believed, The Lost Symbol is all set to be turned into a blockbuster movie, just like Ron Howard’s (A Beautiful Mind) adaptations of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons starring Tom Hanks (Forest Gump) as the intrepid hero Robert Langdon. Keep your eye out for a possible 2012 release date!
Six years in the writing, The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s extraordinary sequel to his internationally bestselling Robert Langdon thrillers, Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code . Nothing is ever what it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. Set over a breathtaking 12 hour time span, the book’s narrative takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through a masterful and unexpected landscape as Professor of Symbology, Robert Langdon, is once again called into action. Expertly researched and written with breakneck pace, The Lost Symbol once again demonstrates why Dan Brown is the world’s bestselling thriller writer
