Luxembourg is not France, and other reasons why French translators are right to be mad at AmazonCrossing
When AmazonCrossing—Amazon’s translated literature publishing arm— was launched a couple of years ago, there was optimism about it in the translator community. New places to publish translations and get paid… Read more »
This week in French nudity
Apple has reinstated in the iTunes Store a French book with a cover that raised flags last month, after protests from the publisher, the French press, and other organizations. The… Read more »
French booksellers protest the attempted censorship of children’s book Everybody Get Naked by getting naked
Earlier this month, Jean-François Copé appeared on French television, to demand that the children’s book Tous à Poil (Everybody Gets Naked) be banned in France. As my colleague Zeljka Marosevic wrote then, the book… Read more »
Self-published author strikes translation deal with Kobo
Bella Andre is the bestselling author of the Sullivan series, perhaps the most obsessively thorough romance series out there at the moment, since it follows every single member of the… Read more »
Happy 100th birthday, Albert Camus
November 7 is the 100th anniversary of Albert Camus’ birth. The author of The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, among others, Camus remains a huge presence in French literature,… Read more »
French lawmakers halt Amazon’s free deliveries
Yesterday, in what France 24 described as a “rare show of unity,” French lawmakers from both the Socialist Party and the conservative Union for a Popular Movement passed a law which… Read more »
France wants to ban Amazon’s free delivery & discounts
Last we heard, France’s culture minister, Aurelie Filippetti (the coolest minister in Europe), had declared war on Amazon and €9m worth of support for the country’s independent bookstores. Now Filippetti has… Read more »
French culture minister: Amazon is “destroyer of bookshops”
On Monday, French culture minister Aurélie Filippetti turned up her nose at Amazon’s parasitic business practices, saying “everyone has had enough of Amazon which, through dumping practices, smashes prices to… Read more »
France unveils a dramatic new plan to bolster booksellers
Gather round, bookmongers, and let me tell you of the promised land. ‘Cross heaving seas and treacherous shoals there lies a land of plenty, a fruitful land, where books may… Read more »
The French ebook revolution
While the French have been slower than Americans to take to the digital books revolution, Fabrice Neuman argues that publishers and other businesses in France are not only catching on, but… Read more »