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With Kobo announcing ebook partnerships with the UK's WH Smith and Fnac in France, Mike Shatskin believes that the ebook powerlines have shifted.
A French parliamentary committee has voted unanimously to impose a fixed price on eBooks sold in France, even if they’re sold from sites based outside France.
Amazon has advertised for Kindle PR and vendor managers in Germany and France.
Feedbooks, a cloud-based ebook publishing and retail platform developed by a 27-year-old computer engineer, is delivering three million downloads per month in France.
Hachette Livre and Google have signed a memorandum of understanding to allow Google to digitise tens of thousands of French-language backlist titles.
Google and Hachette may have come to an agreement, but the French authors' society is urging caution, saying that a deal with Google could imperil the existing government-sponsored scanning scheme.
The expansion of global players into the ebook market continues, with Google Ebooks now live in the UK and an Amazon Kindle store operating in France.
French novelist Michel Houellebecq has reportedly 'gone missing' just before a book tour to promote his latest book, and no-one is sure if it's a publicity stunt ...
Leading French publishers Albin Michel, Gallimard and Flammarion have begun proceedings in French courts to sue Google over its book-scanning program, accusing Google of breaching copyright.
Michel Houellebecq has won France's most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for his novel The Map and the Territory.