The Man Booker Prize has just unveiled its new iPhone app – a first for UK literary prizes. The app, created by award winning digital agency Vexed Digital, will be free to download…

With so much data and so many links, presenting this to the end user was always going to be a challenge.

To complement the BBC / OU co-production In Their Own Words and the OU’s array of literature and creative writing courses, the OpenLearn team at OU has been busy joining the dots of the literary landscape of twentieth century Britain.

Read from a library of engaging, original short stories seeded with test vocabulary, and ace your standardized test. Above all – have fun!

Some people, my parents included, believe that the e-book is a rather pointless invention that will “never replace a real book” (huge emphasis on the word “real”).

Perhaps the problem is that the concept of what writing can be – how it can be written and even how it can be read – is still chained to its paper-based roots.

It’s 2010… the world is moving forward and so is poetry! All hail ‘YouTube’, all hail ‘Vimeo’, all hail the internet!

One of the many great debates around the ephemeralisation of music has been the lamentations for the loss of cover art: now, we are reaching the same point with books.

If we take a look at why the iPad, Kindle and the original favourite, the paper-based novel exist, then we are able to make better comparisons.