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France

• France unveils a dramatic new plan to bolster booksellers

  Gather round, bookmongers, and let me tell you of the promised land. ‘Cross heaving seas and treacherous shoals there lies a land of plenty, a fruitful land, where books may… Read more »

• The French ebook revolution

  While the French have been slower than Americans to take to the digital books revolution, Fabrice Neuman argues that publishers and other businesses in France are not only catching on, but… Read more »

• Ciao, Snowy

  It’s back to France for Flammarion: RCS MediaGroup, the Italian-based firm that owns Corriere della Sera and the publishing houses Bompiani, Rizzoli, and Adelphi Edizioni, has agreed to sell Flammarion… Read more »

• The French: stubborn as ever

  The New York Times reported this week that while digital books are reshaping the publishing industry and accounting for an ever-greater percentage of book sales in the US and UK, physical… Read more »

• Edward Jay Epstein: What I Still Don’t Know About DSK

  I have spent the last 10 months investigating the incident of May 14, 2011 involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which has resulted in Three Days In May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK. I… Read more »

• Google bookstore coming to France

  eBookNewser reports that Google is bringing its digital bookstore to France in the near future. While there is no set date yet, French literary magazine Actuallité says that Philippe Colombet, head… Read more »

• André Schiffrin Awarded Chevalier in the Order of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic

  Two weeks ago, André Schiffrin, founder of The New Press, the former publisher of Pantheon Books, and the author of our A Political Eduction, was awarded the Chevalier in the… Read more »