UK govt. acts on March TNPS call to cut VAT on ebooks to fight the coronavirus
With impeccably bad timing the UK government in April announced it would cut VAT on ebooks from...
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Author: Mark Williams
Ghana’s 2020 International Book Fair cancelled rather than prolong uncertainty for publishers
Scheduled for August 27-30 this year, Ghana’s International Book Fair is now officially cancelled...
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Publishers call the shots on Sweden’s Gothenburg Book Fair cancellation, adding to pressure on Frankfurt Buchmesse to deliver a game plan sooner than June
With the news today via Boktugg that Norstedts is out of the Gothenburg Book Fair, with other...
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Bookstore re-openings promise to be tortuous as these examples from Germany and USA show
In various parts of the world lockdown is slowly being eased, and as a low-risk business,...
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“Just. &%$*@. Stop.” Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn tells the coronavirus book scammers where they can stuff their “snake-oil quackery, conspiracy theories, and raw disinformation”
When it comes to book scams, digital makes it easy for pretty much anyone anywhere to get in on...
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