GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Apple says Tuesday 20 March that 3 million of its new iPads have been sold since they hit the market Friday, four days earlier. It announced Monday that it will be paying investors dividends later this year, for the first time since 1995. But not everyone is happy. A group of 22 [...]
Six writers from around world reading at Lavigny
July 15, 2011 by
The Chateau at Lavigny hosts readings Sunday 17 July. Six writers from around the world and residents at Lavingy will read from their works, wine will served after the reading. Open to the public. Ron Butlin – (UK) Novels, Poetry Yuhong Chen – (China) Novels, Poetry Regi Claire – (Switzerland/UK) Novels, Short stories Krystyna Lenkowska [...]
Huffington, AOL sued for not paying local news writers
April 13, 2011 by
AOL and the Huffington Post have been hit with a class-action suit, following last month’s completion of AOL’s $315 million buy for the more commonly called HuffPo, including its hyper-local news outlet, Patch. Currently, most local Patch sites have just one editor and a group of freelancers working for them. Their goal is to fill the gaps in coverage and [...]
Petina Gappah, Christopher Hope lead Geneva writing workshop
January 30, 2010 by
Two notable writers with strong Swiss connections will be leading a four-day writing workshop in Geneva offered by UK publishers Faber & Faber 25-28 March. “Writing Other Lives” is a course “about writing across languages, cultures, countries and borders, writing while living other lives,” notes Gappah on her web site. The cost is £500/CHF830 and [...]
