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Five of France's biggest book sellers called on publishing houses and the government for support in creating a new retail structure for electronic books to fend off Amazon, Google and Apple.
Executives from the five retailers including PPR subsidiary Fnac and Virgin Megastore said France should have a national e-book platform run by publishers and retailers with a single point of purchase.
But the idea, launched at a joint news conference on Wednesday, drew a skeptical reaction from France's largest publisher, Hachette Livre, a subsidiary of Lagardere.
They also urged the French government to extend protective measures already in place for physical books to e-books, including a single-price mechanism to muzzle competition.
"If we don't manage to do this, what's going to happen? We will find ourselves in front of a platform, or hub, already made by a private company ... whether Amazon, Google or Apple," said Guillaume Decitre, head of bookseller Decitre.
Decitre said the filtering of Internet portals in China and Amazon's removal of George Orwell's "1984" from its e-book platform were examples of why this was undesirable.
The proposal comes a day after the publication of a government report supporting a digital book exchange with Google to resolve a spat over online publication of the world's literary heritage.
A spokesperson for the French Ministry of Culture was unavailable for comment.
PUBLISHER PLEA
Although Decitre and his fellow CEOs said they and their supporters represented 70 percent of the French book market, they said they needed the backing of publishers to get content.
French publishers including Hachette have already set up their own individual platforms for distributing e-books, but Decitre said a single collective platform would be "three to five times" cheaper.
Hachette Livre sales director Francis Lang said he was not opposed to a hub, but said the interests of publishers were currently not the same as those of physical booksellers.
"Creating a governance structure where everyone is around the table but their interests are opposed is the best way for this not to go anywhere," he said.
The chief executive of Hachette's Numilog e-book platform, Daniel Zwirn, also criticized a similar collective e-book hub in Germany, known as Libreka, which the five retailers said had partly served as inspiration for their idea.
"It seems like a good idea, but actually it isn't," he told the retail executives during the conference. "The bulk of the offering goes elsewhere."
Spokespeople from Amazon and Google declined to comment.
"This will probably be uniquely French if it succeeds," said James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research. "Obviously it would be the combination of cultural preservation interests that tend to be unique to France."
"(If publishers and retailers) do cooperate, it's not because it's in their interests," he added. "(It's more about) preserving the culture."
(Reporting by Lionel Laurent, editing by Will Waterman)
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As you're probably aware, as you surf the Web, data is hopping from location to location to request and retrieve the bits of information that form the web page you're looking at. You can actually get the IP addresses and names of the machines that your data has bounced around to and from using the Windows built in trace route utility, but do you ever wonder where those machines are? I'm talking about the physical locations.
Our utility BrowserMap provides this less than crucial but quite intriguing piece of data. By simply clicking the Get Url from Browser button and hitting Go, BrowserMap will trace the path of the hops your browser takes to get the web page data, showing you on a map where the different hop points are in the world.
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Using BrowserMap
BrowserMap sets itself to synchronize with your default browser either IE or Firefox. However, if your default browser is neither of these, you can choose to synch with IE or Firefox by selecting the Settings menu, clicking on Synch with Browser, and then selecting Firefox or IE.
You can also select Type URL Manually which will remove the Get URL from Browser button. However, even without selecting this option, you can type in a URL and hit Go.
If you do choose to synch with a browser, simply hit the Get URL from Browser button and BrowserMap will retrieve the URL from the open browser. If you have more than one tab open, it will retrieve the URL from the currently selected tab. If you have more than one browser window open, it will get the URL from the top most browser window. Note: If you are synching with Firefox, the page must completely load in the browser before the Get URL from Browser button will be able to retrieve the URL.
Once you've typed in the URL or retrieved the URL from the browser, hit Go. BrowserMap starts to work. The first thing it does is determine your IP address, the one that is visible to the world, not your internal network IP. Next it passes the address to our web service that retrieves the domain information and the latitude and longitude.
All of the domain, latitude, and longitude data is retrieved from a database that we license. The data is updated regularly. However, we cannot guarantee that it is or will ever be 100% accurate.
Once the latitude and longitude are determined, the location is plotted in the map window provided by Microsoft's Bing.com mapping service.
For every hop BrowserMap takes while tracing the data, it repeats this process of looking up the IP address and retrieving the latitude and longitude and mapping it.
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