France gonna France, while EU rules web sites responsible for comments: Business ONETouch Digital Marketing Daily Digest

E-book subscription services struggle with French law. Totally shocking (NOT) bit: To get legal, Izneo had to reduce their subscrition offerings to less than 1,500 of the more than 12,000 digital comics they sell. No worries – the French are very happy having Minitel instead of that scary Internet thing.

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The books we now think of as Charles Dickens novels – Great Expectation, et al – were actually published as serials printed a chapter at a time, with fans waiting anxiously then as they do now for the next Game of Thrones. Are we now headed back to serialization?

And finally…In the shocking – but not surprising – part of our show, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that web sites can be held responsible for comments, including annonomous ones.  Ya know, if one were a bit on the cruel and cynical side, one might advise Amazon, Google and other Internet companies caught up in all this EU regulating to just stall for Grexit…

 

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