Exhibition postponed due to Coronavirus
The All for Content 2020 trade show, which was scheduled to take place on April 28 and 29 at the New Cap Event Center in Paris, has been postponed to September 8 and 9 at the same location.
If this exhibition dedicated to brand content does not meet the criteria for banning confined gatherings of more than 5,000 people, the organizer DotEvents anticipates stage 3 : "This stage would be a critical phase for events and should last 2 to 3 months from the decision making which now seems imminent." .
The sale of a book boosted by the coronavirus
The coronavirus epidemic is having a beneficial effect on book sales: in the European country most affected by Covid 19, The Plague by Albert Camus (1947) has gone from 71st to 3rd place in sales in Italy according to the Italian online bookseller Ibs.it taken over by The World .
And according to The Inrock In France, 1,700 copies of the book were sold at the end of January, compared with 500 copies at the same time the previous year, according to figures from Edistats, which collects statistics on book sales.
A name for Lecta distributors
Lecta, a paper manufacturer based in Spain, groups its distribution activity under the same name, Lecta Distribution Group. This new name of the distribution activity is composed of its 4 European subsidiaries, the distributors Torraspapel Malmenayde in France, Torraspapel Distribución in Spain, Torraspapel Portugal in Portugal and Polyedra in Italy.
A rare book by Newton discovered in a Corsican library
A conservation and restoration officer, Vannina Schirinsky-Schikhmatoff, discovered a very rare work by Isaac Newton in the Ajaccio heritage library.
Printed in 1816, the book Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (or Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) is in excellent condition except for the cover which is a bit damaged.
"There are 400 copies in English and 80 in Latin. The Latin edition sold for $3.7 million at a Christie's auction a few years ago, and it's the one in the Ajaccio library." she told the newspaper Le Point .
