BY PAUL SONNE AND JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG Amazon.com Inc. has struck a deal with British book retailer Waterstones to sell Amazon Kindle digital readers, beating Barnes & Noble Inc., maker of the competing Nook device, into the U.K.'s biggest bookstore chain. The deal, which will bring Amazon's Kindle to all 294 Waterstones shops in September, emphasizes the growing clout of the Seattle-based Internet book giant whose sale of both physical and e-books has made it a major headache for brick-and-mortar bookshops world-wide. Though Amazon sells the Kindle through electronics and other retailers, the appearance of Kindles in Britain's largest bookstore chain reflects the growing need for physical ...BY PAUL SONNE AND JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG Amazon.com Inc. has struck a deal with British book retailer Waterstones ... Continue reading →
Steve Coogan is to return as Alan Partridge on Sky Atlantic A-ha! His BBC television career famously came to an end when he thrust a lump of cheese in his commissioning editor's face. Now Steve Coogan's most famous creation, hapless Norfolk DJ Alan Partridge, is changing channels to Sky.Coogan will star as Partridge in two new one-hour specials as well as a TV adaptation of his online series, Mid Morning Matters. The shows will appear on Sky Atlantic as part of an output deal with Coogan's production company, Baby Cow.The BBC has been the home of Partridge since he started out reading the sports news on BBC Radio 4's On The Hour. The last series of I'm Alan Partridge aired on BBC2 in 2002.Coogan's Sky ... Continue reading →
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