The French Publishers Association is lobbying France Television, the equivalent of the BBC, and the government to create a mass audience talk-show that would feature selected books.

The show would be modelled on Richard and Judy in the UK and Oprah Winfrey in the US, with the aim of promoting books more effectively than the nine to 13 TV...

The internet increased its share of book sales in France to 6.1% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, compared to 4.6% of the €4.1bn book market in 2007, 3.5% in 2006 and 3.0% in 2005, according to figures prepared by market research firm GfK for the French E-Commerce and Distance Sales Federation (Fevad).

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Hachette Livre is to acquire French digital book distributor Numilog. The move is designed to prepare Hachette Livre for the launch in France of the Sony digital e-book at the end of this year.

Hachette said that it would enable it to distribute books published by its own imprints as well as by third-party publishers in a variety of...

The €2bn (£1.57bn) book publishing giant created by the merger of Spain's Planeta and France's Editis will attempt to break into the English--language market once the takeover has been digested.

In a ranking of global publishers, the deal will take the combined group to just outside the top five, competing for sixth position...