The British Library’s head of digital publications on the urgency of preserving digital stories, from smartphone apps to interactive web narrativesGiulia Carla Rossi collects the fragile artefacts of our increasingly transient publishing world. She is a curator of digital publications at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-18 13:00:21 UTC ]
The winners of the fourth annual Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes have been announced, with three print magazines and two digital publications, including 'Bellevue Literary Review' and 'Full Stop,' taking home a combined total of $144,000 in funding. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
A rare benefit of COVID-19, the UK's government finally–and suddenly–has wiped out the market's punishing tax on digital publications. The post Coronavirus Update: The UK Scraps Its 20-Percent VAT on Digital Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-04-30 16:03:25 UTC ]
Trade bodies, including the Publishers Association (PA), have sent a letter to the political parties ahead of the release of their election manifestos calling for them to commit to removing "unfair and illogical" VAT on digital publications. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-20 05:24:16 UTC ]
The Publishers Association and leading members of the trade have written a letter to Sajid Javid calling for the new Chancellor of the Exchequer to end the VAT charge on digital publications in the next Budget. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-28 14:28:43 UTC ]
Following EU directive that allows governments to waive duty on digital publications, calls grow for the UK to end ‘illogical and unfair’ levyThe UK government is being urged to axe the “illogical and unfair” 20% tax currently imposed on ebooks, while print books remain exempt, after European... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A report conducted by consultancy Frontier Economics has found a "strong" economic case for taking VAT off digital publications in the UK, as permitted under newly agreed European Union rules. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
New regulations coming into force tomorrow [6th April] will mean that publishers will have to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Gordon McLeod, the former head of Dow Jones's digital publications, has a new job, at an ad tech start-up. He's now president at Krux, a two-year-old "data management platform" that helps publishers control "cookie" data that tracks Web surfers' movements. Last fall, Krux raised $11 million in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]