The European Commission has a grand plan to create a single market for digital content across all the member states of the EU, so it can be bought and sold without barriers such as the administrative burden of different VAT rates. The creation of that market will help entrepreneurial start-up... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Commission is today (6th May) set to reveal plans for the “digital single market”, to remove barriers to online services across Europe. The plans would mean that customers across the European Union could all access the same digital services and products, including ebooks and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Commission has announced an antitrust competition inquiry into the e-commerce sector in the European Union, as part of 16 initiatives on a digital single market to be delivered by the end of next year. The inquiry “will allow the Commission to identify possible competition concerns... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Booksellers Association has said it hopes the European Commission’s competition inquiry into the e-commerce sector will look specifically at market dominance in ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The French, German, Italian and Polish culture ministers today released a joint statement calling for the European Commission to propose immediately legislation to allow VAT on ebooks to be levied at the same reduced rate as print books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Court of Justice has ordered France and Luxembourg to restore their standard VAT rates on ebooks in a ruling announced today (5th March). The court upheld a decision previously made by European Commission, which ruled that the two countries cannot charge the same VAT rate on ebooks... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Luxembourg provided “state aid” to Amazon through its tax arrangements for the company, the European Commission has said in a preliminary finding. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers Association chief executive Richard Mollet has warned that the new European Commission's drive to impose a digital single market risks undermining Europe's cultural diversity and will play into the hands of US-based platform companies. Jean-Claude Juncker's new commission, which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
An agreement between the European Commission and Google over alleged abuses of its dominant... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
News Corp, Rupert Murdoch's media behemoth, is the latest source of criticism of Google. Robert Thomson, the chief executive of the company -- responsible for the Times and the Sun in the UK as well the book publisher HarperCollins -- has written to the European Commission to complain that the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2014-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
European periodical and online publishers have urged the European Commission to reject Google’s latest proposal to settle an antitrust case.The commitments proposed by Google would not stop the company’s “abusive promotion of its own services,” the publishers said in their response, sent to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Commission is to take "a few more weeks" to finalise its White Paper on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Commission's call today for stronger data privacy protections could help the web's biggest data collectors like Google and Facebook fight data requests from the U.S. government.As expected, the Commission published a collection of recommendations for stronger data protections,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
After the European Commission accepted offers from Apple and four publishers to free up ebook pricing restrictions in December 2012, it's now accepted Penguin's commitment to do the same. Much like Penguin's vow to the US DOJ, it will end its agency agreements with Apple and other retailers, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The merger between Penguin and Random House has been approved by the EU. The European Commission... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The merger between Penguin and Random House has been approved by the EU. The European Commission... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Commission has decided to refer France and Luxembourg to the EU Court of Justice... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
10 facts about media and content industries 1. Digitization has increased book sales. Expenditure on electronic books almost doubled each year in 2006-2010 but still amounts to only 3% of global book sales. Forecasts however predict that reve ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Commission is to give France one month to raise the VAT rate applied to ebooks or... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Commission said it was prepared to drop its investigation after Apple and four publishers agreed to let retailers sell ebooks at a discount for two years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]