Nielsen BookData Online service for EIBF Members

BookData Online

The definitive search, discovery and ordering solution English language books

One service to meet all of your book data needs Read more »

Debate with Boualem Sansal, Martin Schulz, a.o

Tuesday, 19 June 2012 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Brussels, Centre for Fine Arts / Hall M

Europe and the Arab spring

By the time the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in the autumn of 2011, the elation generated by the Arab Spring had already given way, in at least some Arab countries, to a certain disillusionment. The period has, nonetheless, changed how power is exercised in that part of the world and has led to an increased awareness within society of political issues. Read more »

IBF Newsflash 75

4 May 2012
  • Have a look at the  posts you have missed in the last weeks: Booksellers on Twitt@Booksellers_Fed
  • EIBF G.A. & CONFERENCE AT THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR: BOOK THE DATES : 10 & 11 OCTOBER 2012
    EIBF Members certainly remember that the annual conference is now taking place in turns in London (last year), Frankfurt (this year) and New York (next year).

 

The full text is available to registered members only. You can log in here.

Read more »

IBF Newsflash 74

22 March 2012
  • AFTER TWITTER, EIBF NOW ALSO PRESENT ON FACEBOOK
  • US: E-BOOK CONSUMERS DRIVE MORE SALES AND MORE DOLLARS THROUGH APPS AND ONLINE RETAILERS, SAYS BISG STUDY
    E-book consumers are increasing their purchase of books -- both print and e-book formats -- online and especially through in-app purchasing, and decreasing their use of brick-and-mortar stores, according to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)'s closely watched Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey.
  • BOOKSELLERS UNDER FIRE IN SOUTH AFRICA
    This year got off to a bad start for South African Booksellers as news trickled in of some of the most respected and loved bookstores in the country closing their doors 

  • INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF YOUNG BOOKSELLERS GATHERING - VIENNA - 2 TO 4 MAY
    Booktrade 3.0 - Bricks and clicks and some tricks. How to survive and succeed in the fundamental changes of the booktrade! early bird rates expire on 15 april

  • NIELSEN - THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BOOKS PUBLISHED INTERNATIONNALY

The full text is available to registered members only. You can log in here.

Read more »

EBF contribution to the European Green Paper on the Future of VAT

31 May 2011

EBF believes that any reform of the VAT system should take into account the following principles:

  • The specific identity of the book, both commercial and cultural item, independently of its format
  • The fact that VAT should be neutral in the cost structure of any business and be charged according to EU and national rules
  • The necessity to implement tax policies supporting the ambitious objectives of the Digital Agenda and the EU 2020 strategy.

Read more in attachment.

Syndicate content