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France to delay tax cut on ebooks until 2012

December 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news

The Bookseller are reporting: The cut in VAT on unenriched ebooks from 19.6% to 5.5% in France will almost certainly be postponed for a year from 1st January 2011 to 2012. An all party committee of members of parliament from both houses agreed during a meeting on Monday to iron out differences over the 2011 [...]

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Borders to delay “area-e” until September

July 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news

Twice.com are reporting that Borders aren’t planning to have the area-e departments open in most stores until September.  Previously Borders had scheduled August for the grand opening. They are also planning to have the Kobo e-reader in all stores by the end of July. (That may sound like a joke but it isn’t.) I stopped [...]

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