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3 weeks ago the METISfiles reported on the ruling of the EU court on case C-174/15, which stated that the lending of an electronic book (e-book) may – under certain conditions – be treated in the same way as the lending of a traditional book. After Angela Ruiz Robles patented the idea of the electronic […] Read more »
Back in 2012 a study “E-Lending Public Libraries”, carried out on behalf of the Dutch Ministry of OCW (Education, Culture and Science), concluded that the existing lending right regime of the Dutch copyright act did not apply to e-books. Moreover the study also concluded that the current European law and regulation framework does not offer […] Read more »
After years of speculation Amazon.nl finally went live. In 2011 we reported on Amazon’s international European expansion. Back in those days Italy and Spain were considered larger markets offering more opportunity for Amazon. In the Netherlands, Amazon will initially start selling 20.000 out of 35.000 existing Dutch e-book titles, and of course its 3 million […] Read more »
In July the Centraal Boekhuis published an infographic on the progress of Dutch language e-books in the Netherlands. In spite of the upbeat tone of the accompanying text stating that the e-book market is developing rapidly, the reality is that the Centraal Boekhuis expects some 2 million e-books to be sold in 2014 against some […] Read more »