1. Ebook VATs, Kafka Papers, and Ice Samples.
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CHARLTON, JOHN
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ARCHIVE laws , *TAX laws , *CHARITY , *COMPUTER input-output equipment , *ELECTRONIC books , *ICE , *LITERATURE , *ACCESS to information - Abstract
The article offers world news briefs related to digital information as of October 2016. Topics include plan of the European Union to introduce value-added tax on electronic books to harmonize print and ebook rates; the National Library of Israel's plan to acquire papers of author Franz Kafka after the country's Supreme Court ruling that manuscripts are the property of the Library; and digitization of author William Shakespeare's Globe archive in London, England by publisher Adam Matthew.
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- 2016