French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti has unveiled part of the government’s plan to shore up independent booksellers, despite earlier fears that she would be unable to commit any money because of France’s huge budget deficit.

She announced that a fund of €5m would be created for loans to booksellers with...

Just 4% of French authors have signed digital contracts for their most recent books and a third say relations with publishers have deteriorated over the past five years, yet advances are marginally on the rise.

Those were some of the highlights of the fifth annual survey of over 1,000 French authors, compiled by the French multimedia...

French publishers and authors have finally reached an agreement on electronic rights, France's culture ministry announced this morning (6th March).

The details will be unveiled on 21st March when the agreement will be signed. Initially, a pact was supposed to be finalized in time for the Paris Book Fair in March 2011, but the...

The European Commission has decided to refer France and Luxembourg to the EU Court of Justice over its cut-rate VAT on e-books.

A statement from the EC said failure to comply with EU law on VAT resulted in "serious distortions of competition to the detriment of traders from other EU Member States" which "goes against...