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VAT fight! European Commission investigates France and Luxembourg for slashing ebook tax The European Commission has started “infringement procedures” against France and Luxembourg for “unilaterally” lowering VAT taxes on ebooks after January 1, 2012 and thereby breaking European Union law. As the… Read more »
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Did a whip-cracking telecom CEO cause 35 employees to commit suicide? Didier Lombard, the former CEO of France Telecom, was charged this week with mental harassment in a complaint filed by a French labor union, which suggests that when Lombard oversaw… Read more »
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Notes on design: Fifty shades of imitation Every once in a while, a book cover comes along which is so striking and iconic it immediately realigns its entire genre. Before Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight hit the bestseller lists a… Read more »
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FRIDAY SOMETHING-OR-OTHER-TO-DO-WITH-BOOKS MUSIC VIDEO: The Cure To hear The Cure, one must first read Camus. At least that’s the case when it comes to “Killing an Arab,” a song included in Boys Don’t Cry, the band’s… Read more »
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Wal-Mart store finally put to good use When a Wal-Mart location shut its doors in McAllen, Texas, it left behind a 124,500 square-foot building that was given back to the city—and rather than turn over the massive space to another… 1 / Read more »
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City Lights’ place in the Summer of Love Attention to design: James Bond Books on a boat in a bay Hemingway’s alternative endings Jean-Jacques Rosseau at 300 Our futile search… Read more »
