UK-based indie production house Kindle Entertainment has entered into a co-production deal with Enid Blyton estate owners Hachette UK to produce a TV series based on Blyton’s bestselling classic children’s book series The Famous Five. Under the agreement, Kindle will be pitching the TV series to broadcasters and distributors in the hopes of securing production funding.
In 1898, a man bought a book for his 16-year-old nephew. “Many happy retoins [sic]. Uncle Spud,” he wrote on a blank page at the front. The book: H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, then just out in America from Harper & Brothers. The ripping tale of a Martian attack that set the mold…
Almost as exciting as receiving an owl-delivered invitation to Hogwarts, Amazon.com today brought all seven Harry Potter books to its Kindle lending library. The online retailer teased last month that the books would be hitting digital shelves by the end of June, for those with a $79 Amazon Prime membership, which allows access to the…