BOOK TRADE ASSESSES POTENTIAL BENEFIT OF PROJECTED EU-JAPAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
July 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN AND WANG FANGQING
EUROPEAN publishers are looking into the opportunities a free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Japan might bring them, as the European Commission asked last week for a mandate from the member states to open negotiations with the Japanese government.
"In trade publishing Japan has been an important purchaser of translation rights", Jens Bammel, secretary general of the International Publishers Association (IPA) told The Bookseller. "Scientific, technical and medical publishing is a global market ...
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