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Google gets digital foothold in France
Despite fierce resistance to Google's plans to digitise the world's books, observers say it is well placed to start scanning Europe's cultural treasures -- beginning in France, where the US giant got a digital foothold this week.
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The Independent on Sunday's literary editor, Katy Guest, takes a look back at a year of surprisingly fancy book launches, international incidents, hip-hop Hamlets, schlockbusters, flopbusters and outsize blockbusters
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- Happy Families, By Carlos Fuentes trs Edith Grossman (Rated 4/ 5 )
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