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Yes it is that time again, Cannes Film Festival, the top European film event of the year, starts today!

Robin Hood, the much awaited new film from Ridley Scott, is opening the 63rd Cannes Film Festival this year. We here at LetsBuyIt.co.uk cannot wait to see it.

Check out the trailer here:

Tim Burton, director of many famous films such as Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland and Edward Scissorhands is presiding over the festival. Burton, Kate Beckinsale along with other respected actors, directors and producers will be deciding the winner of the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm).

There will be many hopeful films showcased here both in and out of competition from a plethora of countries, we will just have to wait and see which masterpiece comes out on top.

Cannes has run in to a few difficulties this year with nature. Just last week it witnessed storms which warranted a large cleanup operation. Waves crashed over cafes, restaurants and festival installations along the seafront.

There are also worries concerning the volcanic ash which may disrupt flights to Nice and other airports in the south of France.

Our survey this week on letsbuyit.co.uk is also looking at which Cannes Film Festival winners you have seen or own at home. Take part in our survey which features in the bottom right hand corner of the homepage.

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Each year, French readers wait for the release of new novels and the discovery of new writers. This year, 558 novels will be published in January and February alone, in France!

Foreign novels, especially English novels, are very popular this year and over 107 English books have already been translated into French!  Among these, the most anticipated are:

Jonathan Coe –The rain before it falls –
Joseph Connolly – Jack the lad and bloody mary –
Paul Auster – Man in the Dark –
If you have already read one of them please put your comments…

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The e-commerce is currently growing rapidly. By 2011, it should triple and Sales Volume should reach 320 billion EUR. The main players in this market are United Kingdom, Germany and France respectively which represent approximately 70% of the European online sales. E-business is however the most dominant in the United Kingdom (60 billion generated this year). This can be explained by their different way of life. English people are said to be great spenders in comparison to Germans and French.

This growth should extend rather quickly and cover a big part of Europe. Have a look here at the entire article concerning figures of the market.

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The craze of Internet users to purchase online continues to grow. The number of deals realized by e-commerce reached EUR 28.8 millions in 2007, which means a rise of 37% in one year.

Similarly 63% of the Internet users had already done a purchase in the second quarter 2007.

We notice a rise of 22% of the number of Internet buyers in 2007. This phenomenon can be explained by a bigger trust of the Internet users concerning the use of this sale’s channel (+20% in one year). Moreover, online buyers are mainly young people between 20 and 40 years old, whereas people older than 50 years are still reluctant to this way of shopping.

It is a sector which evolves very quickly because of the immediacy of the act. We are more easily facing to a logic of impulsive buying. Additionally the intent to purchase increased by 35% in 2007 in comparison to the previous year.
Find here all the information and all the statistics on this subject.

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Here is a first answer to this question:

Logically, most of you come from Europe (more specifically from Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, UK and France), but we are glad to see people connect from all over the world and word of mouth spread out fast.

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