03

Dec

Entrepreneur Hides 5 Treasure Chests Worth $2M Across the United States

Entrepreneur Jon Collins-Black has hidden five treasure chests worth $2 million across the United States. The hunt accompanies his book, “There’s Treasure Inside.” CNN reports that Collins-Black is a Bitcoin millionaire. The book’s official…

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27

Sep

518 new books published in Malta in 2021

In 2021, a total of 518 new book titles were published in Malta by 53 local active book publishers, with the figure remaining stable on the previous year. NSO data…

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12

Jan

UK book sales in 2021 highest in a decade

Book sales continued to climb last year despite lockdowns, with more than 212m print books sold in 2021 – the highest figure of the last decade. Driven by booming appetites…

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18

Dec

Malta: €100,000 per year for authors and publishers for use of printed or digital material

An agreement has been signed which will translate into an investment by Government of 100,000 euro in order to ensure the interests and rights of authors, illustrators and publishers are…

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22

Jul

Russia reports close to 6,000 new coronavirus cases

Russia reported 5,862 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday, pushing its total infection tally to 789,190, the fourth largest in the world. The country's coronavirus crisis response centre…

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30

Oct

Carola Rackete presents her book ‘Acting instead of hope’

Carola Rackete attends a press conference on the occasion of her new coming book 'Acting instead of hope' in Berlin, Germany, 30 October 2019. Rackete, the captain of Sea Watch…

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19

Jun

Italian writer Camilleri still in critical condition

According to the latest hospital bulletin, Italian writer Andrea Camilleri remains critical after suffering cardiac arrest. "The patient is having mechanical and pharmacological respiratory support and is under pharmacological sedation,"…

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26

Apr

300 years ago, Robinson Crusoe was published

In 1719, on this day, Daniel Defoe’s fictional work The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is published. The book, about a shipwrecked sailor who spends 28 years on…

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18

Apr

Victor Hugo’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’ shoots to the top of Amazon best-seller list

Victor Hugo's 19th-century classic 'Notre-Dame de Paris, know in English as the 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame', is at the top of Amazon's best-selling list in France following the blaze that…

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13

Apr

Three soldiers injured in Israeli air strike in Syria

An Israeli air strike on a military position in central Syria injured three soldiers, possibly Iranian, on Saturday, the official Syrian news agency SANA said. SANA, citing a military source,…

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05

Apr

Amazon to launch over 3,000 satellites

Amazon has confirmed its plan to build a network of over 3,000 satellites through "Project Kuiper" to provide high speed internet. The project will launch a constellation of low-Earth orbit…

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04

Dec

Prestigious publication “Dürer in Malta” honours artist’s unique workings

Midsea Books’ prestigious publication Dürer in Malta honours one of the greatest German artists. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) worked in various media, but is most renowned for his exquisite copperplate and woodcut…

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03

Apr

Automating Inequality – High-tech tools deployed in social services can create more inefficiencies and create more inequality

As Americans look for greater government efficiencies, we increasingly turn to automated systems that use algorithms to determine who is eligible for access to housing, welfare benefits, intervention from child…

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