The Bookseller – 2011-02-07
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Mon, 07/02/2011 - 08:53 Sales of books in France fell by 1.5% in 2010 or 0.5% without taking account of book price inflation, according to French weekly Livres Hebdos indicators. After three years of increase, the decline came as retailing in general recovered from its downturn with an annual increase in sales of 0.9% excluding inflation. Figures from the national statistics office INSEE show that book prices rose by 1.7% last year, against...
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The Decitre chain of bookstores has created an online community to help consumers find books to... | The Bookseller – 2012-02-06
France is claiming a world first with its imminent adoption of a new law that lays down the rules... | The Bookseller – 2012-02-03
paidContent understands Google is set to make some big first-anniversary upgrades to its OnePass paid content system in the next few weeks, designed to increase slow take-up among publishers. The... | Editor & Publisher – 2012-01-31
Antoine Gallimard, president of the French Publishers Association (Syndicat National de l’... | The Bookseller – 2012-01-30
The first annual literary prize of prizes has been awarded to Emmanuel Carrè... | The Bookseller – 2011-12-19
French booksellers have called it a "catastrophe" that VAT rates will go up to 7% in... | The Bookseller – 2011-12-14
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Tue, 08/11/2011 - 09:26 French prime minister François Fillon has announced that the reduced VAT rate applying to books would be raised from 5.5% to... | The Bookseller – 2011-11-08
Publication Date: Mon, 07/11/2011 - 09:00 Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child (Picador) which was controversially omitted from this year's Man Booker shortlist, has been lauded at the Galaxy... | The Bookseller – 2011-11-07
The offices of Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was set ablaze last night at around 1am, after a storm of complaints from indignant French citizens who were outraged by the satirical... | Editors Weblog – 2011-11-03
Politicians condemn 'incursion on press freedom' after Charlie Hebdo's Paris headquarters are torched and website hackedThe French government has rushed to the defence of the satirical magazine... | Guardian – 2011-11-03
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The Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed by fire | Guardian – 2011-11-02
Youve got to love the French. The best-selling book on Amazon.coms French site is Indignez- vous!, an exceedingly slim, elegant rumination on the state of the world by Stephane Hessel, a... | BusinessWeek – 2011-11-01
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Wed, 05/10/2011 - 08:51 Former French culture minister Jacques Toubon has said he has high hopes that France will be able to cut VAT on e-books from... | The Bookseller – 2011-10-05
PARIS (Reuters) - Apple's tight control over media content on its iPad is about to fall foul of some of France's most powerful newspapers and magazines, which hope that by teaming up they can stop... | Reuters – 2011-09-21
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Tue, 20/09/2011 - 08:50 The French Booksellers Association has elected vice-president Matthieu de Montchalin to succeed Benoît Bougerol as president,... | The Bookseller – 2011-09-20
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Thu, 15/09/2011 - 09:00 French publishers Albin Michel, Flammarion and Gallimard have confirmed they have dropped charges against Google for... | The Bookseller – 2011-09-15
Three French publishers have dropped lawsuits against Google alleging that the company infringed their copyright. | PC World – 2011-09-09
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Thu, 08/09/2011 - 09:00 French publishers Albin Michel, Flammarion and Gallimard appear to be dropping charges against Google for digitising... | The Bookseller – 2011-09-08
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 07/09/2011 - 08:15 Pan Macmillan has acquired a title which has sold, according to the publisher, more than a quarter of a million copies in... | The Bookseller – 2011-09-07
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Tue, 06/09/2011 - 08:55 Two French publishers have launched a public call to arms to defend independent booksellers, which continue to suffer from... | The Bookseller – 2011-09-06
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Fri, 02/09/2011 - 07:50 Twenty French online-only book publishers and other digital providers have joined forces for the first time to launch the new... | The Bookseller – 2011-09-01
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Wed, 31/08/2011 - 15:01 French authors have given a cautious welcome to last weeks agreement for Google to scan out-of-print or unavailable... | The Bookseller – 2011-08-31
La Martinière will split revenue with the U.S. Internet company from digital sales of out-of-print, copyright-protected works. | The New York Times – 2011-08-26
A second French publisher has reached a deal on digital books with Google to settle a copyright lawsuit in exchange for control over how its out-of-print, copyright-protected works are scanned and... | Boston.com – 2011-08-26
Written By: Philip Stone and Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 24/08/2011 - 08:31 Dawn French and S J Watson are the most successful debut novelists of the year so far across paperback and... | The Bookseller – 2011-08-24
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Mon, 15/08/2011 - 08:41 Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Co is among the 46 bookshops to be nationally recognised as libraires indépendantes de... | The Bookseller – 2011-08-15
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 26/07/2011 - 15:10 A resurgent Dawn French narrowly beat Sophie Kinsella to the summit of The Official UK Top 50 this week. The formers A Tiny Bit... | The Bookseller – 2011-07-26
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 12/07/2011 - 15:33 Dawn French has retained her position at the summit of the Official UK Top 50 for a third week. The mass-market edition of... | The Bookseller – 2011-07-12
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Wed, 06/07/2011 - 07:32 La Martinière is the latest French publisher to sign up to sell e-books through Apples iBookstore. About 150 La Martinière... | The Bookseller – 2011-07-06
After almost a year of collaboration, the French ePresse application has been released on the iPhone and iPad. ePresse, a digital newsstand, is the product of eight press organizations collaborating... | Editors Weblog – 2011-07-05
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 28/06/2011 - 15:11 Dawn Frenchs A Tiny Bit Marvellous (Penguin), the bestselling hardback début novel of 2010, was the bestselling book in the UK... | The Bookseller – 2011-06-28
A French publishing company has filed suit against Google, alleging anti-competitive practices and claiming 295 million (US$420 million) in damages. | PC World – 2011-06-28
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Tue, 14/06/2011 - 14:11 The renaming of half a Paris street as rue Gaston Gallimard on 15th June to mark the publisher's 100th anniversary is being... | The Bookseller – 2011-06-14
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Mon, 23/05/2011 - 15:35 French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand has said internet companies must contribute more to financing creativity.... | The Bookseller – 2011-05-23
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Thu, 19/05/2011 - 09:58 Fewer French booksellers think publishers are "serious and reliable" than they did 10 years ago, a survey has revealed. Among... | The Bookseller – 2011-05-19
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Wed, 11/05/2011 - 08:11 French publishers Albin Michel, Flammarion and Gallimard are suing Google for having scanned 9,797 books without prior... | The Bookseller – 2011-05-11
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Tue, 29/03/2011 - 08:20 The French internet portal for independent booksellers, 1011libraires.com, will finally be launched on 4th April after several... | The Bookseller – 2011-03-29
QUÉBEC, March 23 /CNW Telbec/ - De Marque today announced that they have added over 250 ebook titles to the iBookstore. Popular works such as "La révolution des gaz de schiste", "Hell.com" and... | CNW – 2011-03-23
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Tue, 22/03/2011 - 16:45 Hachette Livre and the French National Library (BnF) have signed a print-on-demand agreement for the publisher to sell through... | The Bookseller – 2011-03-22
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Wed, 16/03/2011 - 09:03 The new-look Paris Book Fair will open on Friday [18th March] for four days as five of the leading French publishers ponder... | The Bookseller – 2011-03-16
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Wed, 16/03/2011 - 13:30 French authors are increasingly satisfied with their publishers, according to the third annual survey conducted by the Civil... | The Bookseller – 2011-03-16
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Tue, 15/03/2011 - 09:23 French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand has urged French publishers to speak with one voice in forthcoming negotiations... | The Bookseller – 2011-03-15
Self-styled enemy of political correctness Éric Zemmour found guilty after trial over remarks about police stopping minoritiesThe controversial French journalist Éric Zemmour has been found guilty... | Guardian – 2011-02-18
US comic book artist Art Spiegelman won the top prize for his craft at France's Angouleme world comic strip festival, the organiser announced at a ceremony on Sunday. | The Independent – 2011-01-31
PARIS (Reuters) - An upstart online news service has led the way in investigating France's latest political funding scandal, defying President Nicolas Sarkozy's efforts to stamp his influence on the... | Reuters – 2010-07-09
Seven independent booksellers with nine... | The Book Seller – 2010-03-10
French Regional Group Les Journaux du Midi chose atex content for production of print and online content by its 500 journalists from a single site, transforming the editorial workflow from its focus... | Editor And Publisher – 2010-02-17
Google was ordered to stop putting scanned French books in its database and to pay about $430,000 in damages. | International Herald Tribune – 2009-12-19
Google is fined 300,000 euros in France and told to remove some titles from its digital books archive. | BBC – 2009-12-18
What's the hot book du jour for French teens? Number One may be "Twilight" (the mega-popular teen vampire series by American author Stephenie Meyer) but right behind seems to be "Les Hauts de... | The Christian Science Monitor – 2009-03-16
PARIS (Reuters) - In a grimy part of eastern Paris a morning editorial conference is underway, similar to the planning meetings that go on in newsrooms everywhere, except this one is being blogged... | Reuters – 2009-03-04
Harper paid about $1 million for Jonathan Littells Kindly Ones, a 983-page French novel narrated by a remorseless former Nazi SS officer, a book that has already aroused fierce passions, for... | New York Times – 2009-03-04
The Slate Group, publisher of Slate, The Root, The Big Money and Foreign Policy, today announced it has collaborated with leading French journalists to launch Slate.fr, an independent French online... | Centre Daily Times – 2009-02-10
PARIS, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says negative claims made against him in a new book represent an attempt at character assassination. | UPI – 2009-02-05
France's foreign minister delivered a heartfelt defense of his "honor" in parliament Wednesday against a new book that threatens to damage his popular image as a champion of the poor and the sick. | AP via Yahoo! News – 2009-02-04
The French state will help provide free newspaper subscriptions to teenagers for their 18th birthdays, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Friday. But the bigger gift is for France's ailing print... | AP via Yahoo! News – 2009-01-23
Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A French publishing house was right to publish a book by a retired general documenting his experiences during the Algerian war of independence and describing instances of... | Bloomberg – 2009-01-15
A supermarket checkout girl has become a bestselling author in France by writing about her irritating customers. | Daily Telegraph – 2008-12-30
The Criminal Court of Paris Friday acquitted famous French writer and journalist, Pierre Pean, of complicity in racial defamation and provocation to racial discrimination following publication in... | AllAfrica.com – 2008-11-11
AP - An exiled Afghan writer won France's top literary prize on Monday for his novel about the misery of a woman caring for a husband left brain-damaged by a war wound. | AP – 2008-11-10
Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco have banned this week's issue of L'Express International, a French newsmagazine, saying its cover story titled "The Jesus-Muhammad Shock" offended Islam. | USA Today – 2008-11-05
THE renowned French writer Eric Simard, 45, spoke at the French Cultural Center in Doha this week. The visit was organised by the French School, Lycee Bonaparte, where he read and wrote with the... | Gulf Times – 2008-11-05
An edition of French magazine L'Express International is banned in Morocco for allegedly insulting Islam. | BBC News – 2008-11-03
PARIS (AFP) - Italy's Sandro Veronesi picked up France's prestigious Femina prize for best foreign author Monday, while Jean-Louis Fournier won the French writer's prize with a book on having... | AFP via Yahoo!Xtra News – 2008-11-03
RABAT, Morocco (AFP)--The French weekly news magazine L'Express International has been banned from sale in Morocco for "insulting Islam," the country's Ministry of Information said Friday. | Nasdaq – 2008-10-31
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was praised by the Swedish Academy as an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy. | New York Times – 2008-10-10
Duo revealed as award-winning Michel Houellebecq and Benard-Henri Lévy, the leftwing philosopher | Guardian – 2008-09-21
Hachette Livre and French chain Fnac have... | The Bookseller – 2008-09-12
When is a bestseller not a bestseller? When it's a bestseller in France. Alison Flood investigates the prospects of success on this side of the channel for the French publishing phenomenon The... | Guardian – 2008-09-11
Jessica Reed: As a child, I loved Enid Blyton's books. But it's only now I realise that the French translations neglected some vital information | Guardian – 2008-08-20
Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank has bought the film rights to best-selling lifestyle book French Women Don't Get Fat. | Decanter.com – 2008-08-14
France's literary output will be down in every sense this year, with fewer titles published and grim subject matter prevailing | Guardian – 2008-08-08
French booksellers are seeking exemption to a... | The Bookseller – 2008-08-04
Through a project called Read & Go (yes, in English), a new device allows users to download the contents of the newspapers over France Télécoms wireless network. | New York Times – 2008-07-21
Australian author Jackie French is on a mission -- to get children interested and involved in their local wildlife and the lessons to be learnt from them. | Reuters via Yahoo! News – 2008-07-16
A raid by French prosecutors on the offices of a specialist magazine that published unauthorised pictures of one of carmaker Renault's new models has refuelled simmering controversy over press... | Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News – 2008-07-16
French authors have been signing a petition contesting a law for scanning and selling orphan and... | The Bookseller – 2012-02-21
French booksellers are cautiously optimistic that their margins will not be squeezed when VAT on... | The Bookseller – 2012-03-05
It's a case of having one's cake and eating it, too. Or, in this instance, digitizing the works of others and reselling them online for a 40 percent cut. According to Le Temps, a controversial new... | Engadget – 2012-03-06
An e-rights agreement between French publishers and authors has finally been hammered out, a year... | The Bookseller – 2012-03-16
An advisory body to the French prime minister has predicted that e-books are about to shake up... | The Bookseller – 2012-03-22
Google and French publishers and authors have officially ended six years of legal wrangles with... | The Bookseller – 2012-06-11
Lekiosk, a digital magazine newsstand app, has launched in the UK and is offering subscriptions to around 100 titles from publishers including Condé Nast, Immediate Media and Dennis. | Media Week – 2012-06-11
Google Inc.'s effort to digitize the world's books inched forward Monday, as the search giant said it had struck deals with French authors and publishers that end six years of litigation and open the... | AllThingsD – 2012-06-11
Google has struck a deal with two French organizations representing authors and book publishers, ending years of litigation. | PC World – 2012-06-11
Internet search giant Google and a group of French book publishers say they've resolved a long-running dispute over Google's book scanning and indexing efforts. | Boston.com – 2012-06-12
The History Press' subsidiary in France, Editions Alan Sutton, is entering a process known as... | The Bookseller – 2012-07-03
Kobo's Android app recently enjoyed a brief stint of global superiority, but that playing field has been leveled with the company's latest update for iOS. Like the Android version, Kobo for iOS now... | Engadget – 2012-08-16
The battle to keep online advertising yields and returns high in a market of infinite volume and little scarcity rages on. But some publishers are deciding that it's not their fellow... | Editor & Publisher – 2012-09-04
French publishers have relaunched a discussion about the republishing of headlines and the first paragraph of articles by Google and other search engines without... | PC World – 2012-09-05
Publishers want a slice of Google ad revenue. France's major online newspaper publishers have called for a new legislation which will ensure internet search engines including Google have to pay... | Editor & Publisher – 2012-09-12
2013 will see publishing giant Condé Nast launch a French version of Vanity Fair. The US magazine already publishes international editions in Britain, Spain and Italy and latest member of the... | Editors Weblog – 2012-09-18
Riot police are today guarding the offices of satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo fearing Muslim protests after its latest issue hits the streets with cartoons of Mohammad. The magazine, whose... | Editor & Publisher – 2012-09-19
Condé Nast's decision to start a French edition of Vanity Fair has some media executives questioning why the American publisher insisted on announcing the news now, amid a stubborn economic crisis. | The New York Times – 2012-09-23
The 7th Woman by Frédérique Molay is a serial killer novel that’s sold over 150,000 copies in France and has been published in seven languages, in addition to its native French. You can add... | Publishers Weekly – 2012-09-28
Yesterday will not be remembered as a great day in Google's history. As well as the vertiginous stock slide, which sliced 9% off its share value before trading was halted for a couple of hours, the... | Fast Company – 2012-10-19
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Should search engines like Google have to pay publishers like newspapers for linking to their content? France says yes, Google says no -- and it's prepared to go nuclear on... | Editor & Publisher – 2012-10-22
France has demanded the repayment of £160 million in unpaid tax from Amazon it has been... | The Bookseller – 2012-11-14
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