Amazon France chief Xavier Garambois has called for an overhaul to the French 1981 Lang Law on fixed book prices and has cited the UK as a market that has thrived since the Net Book Agreement (NBA) was scrapped in 1995.

Quoting Nielsen BookScan figures, he told the cultural affairs commission of the National Assembly, or lower house of...

The crisis at France's second largest publisher Editis over staff bonuses following the company's sale to Planeta of Spain may soon be over.

The details have not been revealed, but it is understood that four out of the five trade union groups have signed a compromise agreement that is to be endorsed by the Editis supervisory...

Staff at W H Smith's Paris branch are to strike over pay and conditions. Of the store's 43 staff, 36 will join a picket outside the branch tomorrow (1st July) at the beginning of a 24-hour strike.

Christopher Saynor, a bookseller at the branch, said the action followed months of unease over cost-cutting measures imposed on the...

Bloomsbury boss Nigel Newton has stressed that the group is still looking for company acquisitions after growing its cash assets to £50m in the past six months.

In the company's a.g.m. statement, Newton said that the group was trading in line with expectations, despite Bloomsbury USA continuing to operate in a "difficult...