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Charlie Hebdo and the Michel Houellebecq connection: Free speech’s martyrs
As per my earlier report on the Charlie Hebdo massacre, other commentators have been picking up on the coincidental timing of the attack with the publication of Michel Houellebecq’s new novel...
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After Charlie Hebdo, Michel Houellebecq soils his readers
Sadly, Michel Houellebecq and his Islamophobic new novel Soumission (Submission) look to be among the all-too-predictable beneficiaries of the Charlie Hebdo attack – alongside anti-Islamic hate groups...
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Book review: Arthur Symons: The Symbolist Movement in Literature, Archive.org
This is another review of a long-extant book (originally published in 1899), but a new digitization of this hard-to-find work over at Archive.org made a good case for this. The Symbolist Movement in...
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When French copyright reaches overseas
When international copyright meets the Internet, the results can be a big mess. French chess champion Marcel Duchamp hand-carved a chess set in 1917. The set has long since been lost, and exists only...
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France demands Google censor search results everywhere
Google has been complying with the European Union’s inane “right to be forgotten” legislation and court decisions, removing offending information from its search engines that cover the affected...
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Grenoble, France introduces free short story vending machines
Konbini has a brief report on Grenoble, the capital of the French Alps, introducing a number of free story vending machines from publisher Short Edition. The idea is to attract people’s attention away...
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Shakespeare and Company a safe haven during Paris attacks: What other...
Legendary English-language Parisian bookshop Shakespeare and Company has been rightly lauded for its role during the recent atrocities in Paris, when writer-in-residence Harriet Alida Lye reported live...
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French Digital Republic Bill bars backdoors, promotes open access?
France is currently considering an omnibus bill, the Digital Republic Bill, designed to cover a host of policy issues in digital, internet and technology areas – including two dear to TeleRead readers:...
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Zut alors! E-books were just 6.4 percent of the book market in France in 2014
I love France, home to Mantano Reader, Feedbooks and other glories of e-bookdom. But all is not well there. Jerry Lewis isn’t the only case of French and American tastes diverging. While e-books might...
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European Digital Reading Lab, IDPF, Readium Foundation host first EPUB Summit...
The European Digital Reading Lab (EDRLab), the Paris-based non-profit hub for digital reading and publishing development, has announced that it is partnering with the International Digital Publishing...
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