World news about “Books” published by euronews.
‘The Little Prince’ who never grows old ‘The Little Prince’ may be aging fast, but its youthful idealism remains as pertinent as ever. First published in 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s popular… 17/04/2013
Ireland’s famous Book of Kells given a new app Marble busts line the Long Room at Trinity College, Dublin. Great philosophers and writers from the past gaze down on an innovation very much of the… 12/12/2012
Penguin and Random House to merge Bertelsmann and Pearson are to merge their books operations Random House and Penguin to create a new publishing giant and make significant economies of… 29/10/2012
‘For Europe!’ book makes the case for a federal Europe ‘For Europe!’ is a new book, written by two staunch pro-Europeans – Daniel Cohn-Bendit of the Group of Greens-European Free Alliance and Guy Verhofstadt… 01/10/2012
Digitising the past Although millions of books are scanned and put online every year, making old documents and texts available on the web is a difficult and painstaking… 11/09/2012
International Literacy Day ‘wake up call’ for Europe As the world marked International Literacy Day - new figures showed many Europeans still lack basic reading and writing skills. Roughly one in five… 06/09/2012
Jeremy Rifkin and ‘lateral power’ energy Meet the author of a work about staving off our own extinction: Jeremy Rifkin, who advises the European Commission. He is an American economist. He has… 31/05/2012
The European Book Prize The European Book Prize was founded in 2007 by the Esprit d’Europe association as a way of promoting European values, and contributing to Europeans’… 08/12/2011
Boulet: France’s favourite comic book bloggerFrench cartoonist Boulet is known in comic book circles as one of the leading comic strip bloggers in the Francophone world. He started his blog in French… 17/03/2011
Happy birthday Tintin!Everybody’s favorite comic book reporter is turning 84 today. His first adventures were published on January 10, 1929 in the children’s pages of the Belgian… 10/01/2013
Royal exposé rocks BelgiumA book about the royal family is causing a stir in Belgium. Media extracts suggest the book questions the succession and alleges that the marriage between… 24/10/2012
Life after Harry Potter? JK Rowling’s first book for adultsHarry Potter fans have had five years to grow up since the last installment of the fantasy novel. Some commentators say they need to have matured quite a lot… 27/09/2012
Anti-film protests echo Salman Rushdie furoreThe deep anger that’s been felt across the Muslim world over the controversial anti-Islam film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ echoes similar demonstrations more than… 18/09/2012
Spain: Church electrician arrested as stolen medieval book is foundPolice have found a priceless medieval religious manuscript stolen from a church in northwest Spain one year ago. The Codex Calixtinus is a 12th century… 04/07/2012
‘Where The Wild Things’ author Sendak dead at 83Children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak has died at the age of 83. The Brooklyn-born writer was best known for his fantasy tale “Where the Wild… 08/05/2012
US sues Apple over e-book price fixingTechnology giant Apple and publishers Penguin and Macmillan are being sued over the pricing of e-books. The US Justice department accuses them of collusion … 12/04/2012
Germany: Plan to publish Mein Kampf extracts haltedA British publisher has backed down from plans to print parts of Hitler’s notorious Mein Kampf in a history magazine, sold on newsstands in Germany. Amid… 25/01/2012
German legal threat to stop Hitler memoir extractsA British publisher is controversially planning to publish excerpts of Hitler’s memoir “Mein Kampf” in Germany, along with a critical commentary. But the… 21/01/2012
DSK gives his version of the ‘truth’A book out this week quotes the former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn saying his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid was “consensual but… 01/12/2011
Pressing issues at the Frankfurt Book FairThe biggest book fair in the world is in full swing in Frankfurt, opening to publishers and guests. It is an industry that has weathered the financial crisis… 12/10/2011
