Tag: booksellers
Tax cut “necessary” – “The death of booksellers is not coming, it is already here”
Rescue for the bookstoresWhat should help? “A sales tax cut,” demands “Mr. Heyn” Helmut Zechner, specialist group chairman and operator of the traditional Klagenfurt bookstore Heyn. With 10 percent sales…
second-hand booksellers will challenge the dismantling of their boxes in court
They said on Monday that they were considering bringing the matter of the dismantling of their boxes on the banks of the Seine during the opening ceremony of the Olympic…
the anger of the second-hand booksellers does not weaken
A closed second-hand bookstore stand along the banks of the Seine in Paris, January 8, 2024. BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS The third meeting organized on Monday January 15 by the…
Before the 2024 Olympics, Paris is testing the dismantling of second-hand booksellers’ crates
In Paris, August 12, 2023. MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP Paris City Hall plans to carry out, on Friday, November 10, “a feasibility test for dismantling, emptying, reassembling and replacing identically…
in Paris, the movement of second-hand booksellers takes a political turn
Albert Abid, on the Quai de la Tournelle, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, July 31, 2023. He is one of the many kiosks affected by the prefectural decision to…
a call from intellectuals to “leave the booksellers of Paris in their traditional and secular location”
“Anything that degrades culture shortens the paths that lead to servitude” : this reflection of one of the greatest French writers of the XXe century, Albert Camus, Nobel Prize for…
United States: the conservative right attacks librarians and booksellers
Is censorship making a comeback in the United States? A US federal judge has suspended an Arkansas law that was to come into effect on August 1, which provided for…
The 2024 Olympics, a subject of conflict between booksellers and the Paris City Hall
Parisian booksellers are upside down. Or, rather, it is their “boxes”, arranged on the banks of the Seine, which could be in a year. Because, with the Olympic and Paralympic…
Authors, booksellers and independent publishers want to impose conditions on Daniel Kretinsky, the prospective buyer of Editis
Czech businessman Daniel Kretinsky on January 22, 2020, in Paris. JOEL SAGET / AFP Alongside real reasons for satisfaction, major questions remain after the decision of the European Commission to…
Italy: publishers and booksellers against the abolition of the culture check for young people
The vote, by the government majority, of an amendment repealing the system put in place since 2016, which allowed young people celebrating their 18th birthday to benefit from a sum…
In Paris, booksellers on the banks of the Seine welcome the return of tourists
by Manuel Ausloos PARIS (Reuters) – In the heart of Paris, Rachid Bouanou, a former sailor, opens his bookstore, a large wagon-green wooden crate placed on a wall overlooking the…
publishers take a step towards booksellers and authors
Publishers are simultaneously taking a small step for booksellers and authors. At a time when Vivendi, the parent company of the holding, is launching its takeover bid for Lagardère –…