Tags: FranceAfter a long showdown with the Senate, the French government finally adopted an amendment to apply a reduced VAT rate of 5% on digital books, a rate already applied to printed books. ‘We will not return to this amendment adopted by way of the French...
Tags: EuropeThe electronic application form for Strand 1.2.2 of EU’s Culture Programme (literary translation projects) is now online. Publishers can apply before 3 February,...
Tags: EuropeThe general call for proposals 2011 for the EU’s Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) has been launched. In the strategic priorities 2011-2013 of this programme, section KA 2.2 (networks in the key activity field of ‘languages’) now includes...
Tags: EuropeCulture Action Europe launches the we are more campaign for the new EU Culture Programme. Please click on the logo to check the special website, which also contains a full position paper and CAE’s contribution to the public online consultation of the...
Tags: TurkeyOn 7 December 2010 İrfan Sancı of Turkish publishing house Sel Yayınları and translator İsmail Yerguz were acquitted from charges of publishing/translating obscene books. The books at stake in the court case that was instituted earlier this year involved a...
