It seems like the perfect formula for a date book: Jane Austen + undead ultraviolence. Last seen guiding people “How to Survive a Horror Movie”, Seth Grahame-Smith hijacks the classic author’s “Pride and Prejudice” with an unexpected and critically acclaimed zombie angle.
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is set to be the first of a series of Quirk Classics that fool around with influential literature. To comply with copyright laws however, it’s likely that only stories published in the United States before 1923 will qualify. The publisher, Quirk Books, has mentioned some of their favorite fan-suggested titles on their website (publishing [...]

Ars Technica points us to the growing concern over App Store applications getting ripped off and/or copied by other developers. The applications they compare are two eBook readers: Classics and Classics: Jane Austen. Classics is popular, and was featured on Apple’s broadcasted iPhone ads. Classics: Jane Austen however is a mirror-image of the application, both in graphics and interface.
Developers trying to benefit from the success of others on the App Store is nothing new. The most common method thus far has been to use the names of some of the more popular apps in the description of a different app, [...]