Editis has sold its Brussels-based educational, scientific and academic publishing subsidiary Groupe De Boeck to Ergon Capital Partners III SA for an undisclosed sum. The sale will enable France’s second largest publisher "in the digital era"  to concentrate on its core business of literature, education, reference books...

The French internet portal for independent booksellers, 1011libraires.com, will finally be launched on 4th April after several months of delay due to technical difficulties.

Initially, 300 outlets will be hooked up to the site to sell up to 300,000 physical and electronic books. The aim is to increase the number of booksellers taking...

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 at the recent European Commission raids into French publishers, which he described as "out of proportion".

During the...

French authors are increasingly satisfied with their publishers, according to the third annual survey conducted by the Civil Society for Multimedia Authors (Scam).

The latest results show that 71% of respondents are satisfied, up from 69% in 2010 and 64% in 2009. But payment of royalties remains a problem, as only 49% of publishers...