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Amazon has sealed as deal with the British Library to make a whopping 65,000 books available to Kindle owners and via CreateSpace’s Print on-Demand service. The books were digitised as part of a partnership with Microsoft’s Livesearch, and just hours after agreeing a patent deal with Microsoft , Amazon has now launched a joint venture with the British Library for tens of thousands of 19th century philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The content will be available on Amazon’s sites in the United States, UK, France and Germany, bringing a host of unique content to the public.

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Universal has unveiled its latest Blu-ray plans and it looks like the company is harking back to 1997, with the launch of flipper discs. ‘Flipper’ is a dirty word in DVD circles, as it harks back to a time when a movie would be spread over two sides of a DVD, meaning you had to flip over half-way through a film to finish watching it. Luckily there will be none of that this time around, as Universal is putting a DVD version of the movie on one side and a Blu-ray version of the same film on the other. In a time when movie distributors feel the need to give away a separate disc for ‘digital copies’, it does make sense that Universal would want to save on creating unnecessary discs but flipper discs, really

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Collecting things is human nature. The things we collect change over time, but the process never stops. It was cuts and bruises when you were seven, cards when you were a teen and, although no one will admit it, those sweet wrappers with the free tattoos made an appearance somewhere too.

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