Bookshops thrive as France moves to protect sellers from Amazon

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Legislation for minimum delivery price aims to stop ‘distorted competition’ against independent bookshops

At her independent bookshop in the small, rural town of Puy-en-Velay in southern France, Anne Helman had seen an influx of customers since the coronavirus pandemic who said they would rather buy books in person than online.

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Ferhaal Koos Tiemersma: Reut’m

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Reut’m

Wy binne delstrutsen op de pleatslike camping fan Reutum, of Reut ‘m, sa ’t men dêr seit. De ‘eu’ wurdt dêrby wat ôfplatte, sadat sels in wurd as Reutum lanlike assosjaasjes opropt. It plakje sels stelt net folle foar: in asfaltdyk mei in rotonde, hjir en dêr wat futleaze bebouwing en dat is it dan wol.

Dat wy dochs yn Reutum bedarre binne, is in regelrjocht gefolch fan ús camping-taktyk. Neidat wy in pear ferfelende oeren yn ‘e auto sitten hawwe, nimme wy gewoan de earste camping nei de folgjende stopljochten. Of sokssawat. Foardiel is dat we ússels hiel wat sikerij besparje.… Lês fierder

Kollum Henk van der Veer: Taalstriid

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Ik bin nyt su’n skerpsliper, mar an de andere kant hou ik wel fan un bitsje gedonder, wat dat angaat geldt foar mij ut adagium ‘ik hou nyt fan gedonder, mar ik kan nòch minder sonder’.

Kòrtleden had ik un diskussy met un eindredakteur over un bijdrage dy’t ik foar un blad skreven had. Ik was op besoek weest bij twee bruggewwippers, moai fòlk met nòch moaiere ferhalen. Dat gebeurde in de thústaal fan de beide mannen, de een in onferfalst Snekers en de andere in ut Frys.

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Franz Kafka drawings reveal ‘sunny’ side to bleak Bohemian novelist

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Stricken with self-doubt, paranoia and existential despair, the writings of Franz Kafka have taken generations of readers on what the author called “the descent into the cold abyss of oneself”.

A trove of 150 drawings, retrieved from a Swiss bank vault in 2019 after years of legal wrangling and presented to the public for the first time on Thursday, offers a more cheerful interpretation of the term “Kafkaesque”, however.

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