The term “walled garden”—used most frequently in conjunction with Amazon’s closed ecosystem—was in frequent use at this year’s Tools of Change conference in New York.

The conference tried to explore how to break through walled spaces—and not just the obvious ones. It’s too easy to rail...

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...

After only one year Germany's participation in international World Book Night celebrations has been put on hold, at least temporarily. Even though the initial event has been hailed a great success by the organisers, this year's campaign has nonetheless been quietly shelved.

An official statement by co-organiser Stiftung Lesen...

Fnac, the leading French cultural products chain and the country's biggest seller of books, remained in the black in 2012, despite a downturn in the French retail sector.

The chain reported an operating profit of €79m (£68m) for the full year to the end of 2012, although this was down 22.7% from 2011. Revenue in all its...