The Zone of Interest, set in Auschwitz, is declined by the author's publishers in Germany and France, although alternative French house picks up novel The Zone of Interest reviewedIn the UK, some critics have hailed it as the "best book in 25 years" by one of Britain's greatest living writers.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
You may have missed the news in early February that Google has established a $60 million Euro (about $80 million) fund to support a group of French publishers in their digital enterprises. Not only that, Google chairman Eric Schmidt jetted to Paris ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
French publishers have relaunched a discussion about the republishing of headlines and the first paragraph of articles by Google and other search engines without... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 broadcasters, magazines and newspaper who are the problem but t ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google and French publishers and authors have officially ended six years of legal wrangles with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
An e-rights agreement between French publishers and authors has finally been hammered out, a year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three French publishers have dropped lawsuits against Google alleging that the company infringed their copyright. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 copyrighted books without prior permission, at least for the moment, the trade weekly Livres Hebdo has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 financial decline in the country. Le Seuil c.e.o. Oliver Bétourné wrote in Le Monde last week that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Fri, 18/03/2011 - 11:32 French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand has said that he would not intervene in the dispute between publishers and authors over electronic rights for the moment. Mitterrand also hit out a the recent European Commission... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]