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iPad 2 : une parodie française pour sa sortie t.co @francoisvermaut

En réponse à une question sur la TVA des eBooks que j'ai reçue récemment, voici ma compréhension de la question.

En Belgique, comme vendeur, la TVA (21%) s'applique également sur les eBooks.

Comme acheteur, la question est de savoir on est dans quel pays on achète.

Exemples.

J'ai acheté un ebook en France et j'ai payé 19,6% de TVA.


Sur un ebook Américain, sur Amazon je n'ai payé apparement aucune taxe.



Sur l'App Store, une TVA de 21% s'applique. Cfr http://store.apple.com/be-fr/help/payments

La TVA pourrait donc influencer l'achat de ceux qui recherchent les meilleurs prix. Les eBookStores Européens sont un peu défavorisés d’où les discussions sur l'harmonisation et la baisse de la TVA européenne sur les eBooks.

Je n'ai pas (encore) trouvé l'information officielle (via Google).

A suivre...

I helped Jean-Yves Huwart to convert his paper book into an ebook and it's now on sale on Amazon.com.

Read more here :

Utiliser Internet pour Vendre à l'étranger - App & ePaper

With ebooks, readers need a way to discover books – right now book stores are... | LinkedIn: "Eric Grimm : Discovery is best done in stores. One of the reasons the music industry is struggling with bankruptcy and struggling with launching new talent is because specialty music stores weren't protected. Although digital sales increased 940% in the past four years, total sales declined 35% because the number of store outlets shrunk (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry 2010 report on the global music industry). It's 'both/and' not 'either/or' that makes the business model work."

RT @roulive: “@ticsante: Le CH de Montluçon donne cinq ans à Agfa pour rénover son SIH bit.ly titre à double sens :-)

You run a SMB/PME? I helped producing a nice ebook: "Utiliser Internet pour vendre à l'étranger" by @jeanyves Huwart bit.ly

Amazon.com Utiliser internet pour vendre à l'étranger (French Edition) eBook: Jean-Yves Huwart: Kindle Store amzn.to

RT @ceulemanso: Searching for a technical writer for IRISNext... If you are interested or know someone, please contact me !

RT @RTBFinfo: Le bonheur ne se prémédite pas bit.ly

Devil’s Architect ... bit.ly

Ruminations on Architecture and Security » Identity Provider Business Case, or not? bit.ly

....Prenez TOUT votre temps. (Mais) pas le mien... (Entendu a la télé : Faubourg 36)

RT @MajedMasad: Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …) bit.ly

The new skype is a mess.

#rtbf #vivacité goforzero.be 52% des conducteurs ne s'engagent pas :"Les autres doivent changer, pas moi". Lamentable. #chacunpoursoi

RT @ActuaLitte: Bibliothèque avec ordinateurs et catalogue d'oeuvres numériques... un cybercafé littéraire ? bit.ly

RT @SoBookOnline: [Piratage] La psychologie du comportement pour comprendre le piratage ? j.mp (RT @AlexisJaillet)

Floating soccer pitch t.co

Passionate People / From an IDEA … to an APP « The R Blog bit.ly

Venise... - jfdeclercq's Pictures Blog - bit.ly

In JF mind today: Bruxelles central parle avec Antwerpen Centraal - Vittel - bit.ly

Autriche 0 - Belgique 2. Bravo !

Waow. J'aime bien ! RT @roulive: Décoration des nouveaux bureaux twitpic.com

I was member number 447831 in Linked In. And you ? Where you in the 1st million ? Did you get the thank you message ? bit.ly

Installed Firefox 4... Many add-ons don't work any more...

ipad

@francoisvermaut :-))))

Unexpected: my mac doesnt boot anymore because of a macosx upgrade. Forced to restore from time machine. apple is not better than microsoft

@francoisvermaut Making something : I hope so...

Back online after an excellent romantic extended weekend in Venice.

myShopi, the shopping list for iPhone, is available for free.

Already in the TOP 10 of most downloaded apps and n° 1 in productivity after 48h in Belgium, and it still is.

Download the app on http://alturl.com/q5yzb and visit www.myshopi.be for more info !

Coming soon on Android and Windows Phone.

#LinkedIn Groups : how to get an url for a response in a middle of a discussion ? I always land at the end of the discussion....

When you follow long discussions in Linked In Groups, the web interface is really bad. Couldn't they look at ho traditional forums work. ?

Very interesting day in Den Haag with bibliotheek.nl

RT @appepaper: bit.ly Appe par François... Francois being @francoisvermaut

My Facebook is back in #Tweetdeck. My wife was there in place of me. Depends on who's logged in in Safari...That very bad Id Mgt...

RT @bizz_y_bee: Don't go on auto-pilot in your life. get rid of the bullshit you were fed with. Be authentic. #MyFunkyBrand

RT @roulive: Telemis looking for Java Software Developers : t.co

#myfunkybrand Now I need to have look at what I have written in my linked In profile...

Nice presentation by @SchmoozyFox tonight. I enjoyed the "personal brand oriented speed networking". #myfunkybrand

RT @francoisvermaut: RT @jfdeclercq: ReadWriteWeb - 1 in 4 College Textbooks Will Be Digital By 2015 bit.ly

RT @BrightQuote: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett

The screen of the ipad is not good to read in the bus or in the train.

RT @_JohanCruijff_: Cristiano Ronaldo: "God sent me to earth to show people how to play football." Lionel Messi: "I never sent anybody!"

Still using the "Perfect Memo" template for my emails...

Am I the only one who at least politely answers 99% of the emails directly addressed to me ?

RT @mulkers: RT @raesmaa: RT @Stanford Skype Founder To Stanford Students: Don’t Follow The Obvious Path on.wsj.com

RT @mulkers: T-Shirt of the year, thanks @WouterDenayer for sharing it :-) twitpic.com

bit.ly Appe par François...

RT @jfruiz: Un site bien lol sur les Réseaux Sociaux : www.zeros-sociaux.fr

Having SSO fun today : OAUTH, OpenID, Shibboleth, Janrain, Forgerock OpenAM... What's the best ?

Enough work for today... Now rust for tomorrow and the rest of the week. Because #verybusy

RT @FunkyBizBabe: RT @iebusiness: IE invites you to attend an event with Olga Slavkina @FunkyBizBabe this Thu in Brussels bit.ly ...

YouTube - Sensation 2008 - The Show bit.ly

First Porsche 911 Speedster comes to Boston - Boston Overdrive - Boston.com bo.st

positioning in Google's search results can be a life-or-death issue for a business.http

RT @lavenir_net: Nourrir la planète en 2050 : le monde n'est pas préparé bit.ly

Ca ce sont des chars de carnaval de chez char de carnaval !!! Carnival 2011 - The Big Picture - Boston.com t.co

Ok I found the BShirts.be "where to buy" square... But I'm not going to see it on my iPad or mobile phone. #kisss please !!

The website of BShirt.be is nice but where can I buy ?????????? #somethingmissing #ecommerce

RT @appepapee: iPad 2 : new features revealed !! bit.ly

RT @GuyKawasaki: How to get a personalized copy of Enchantment (US only) om.ly

Zite: een soort Flipboard, maar dan slim t.co

Reserve your connect.me username cxt.me

RT @JanSonck: VMware View brings virtual desktops to iPad with touchscreen-friendly controls (video) t.co via @engadget

Sometimes I have very nice invitations on Facebook but since I don't know the person IRL, I ignore. Sorry.

A nice example of Book/eBook promotion website : Guy Kawasaki: Enchantment bit.ly

Voici un problème que les développeurs Android on détecté : le classement des applications n'est pas "juste".


Les développeurs Android s’unissent contre la politique de Google sur le Market « FrAndroid Communauté Android: "- Avoir un classement plus juste des applications

La navigation sur l’Android Market se fait soit grâce aux nouvelles applications, soit aux classements (top gratuit, payant…). La liste des applications récentes est constamment mise à jour, vu que la plateforme est populaire. Par conséquent, lors d’un nouvel ajout, l’application est seulement visible quelques minutes. Pour les tops, seuls les gros succès sont référencés et plus particulièrement ceux présents depuis la création de la plateforme. Il n’y a quasiment aucun espace pour les nouveautés.
L’union souhaite que Google implémente une autre manière pour naviguer dans les applications populaires, avec différentes fenêtres de temps et pour différentes régions (pays).


Il en est de même pour les eBooks. Quels eBooks doivent se retrouver en première page d'un eBookstore ? Comment donner une chance égale à tous les eBooks qui se valent ? C'est l'un des buts du composang appellé "Grasduinen" dans l'Architecture du VeP.

RT @fbon: découvre que "créez des documens ePub" en vente sur @immateriel est dispo en PDF seulement, non mais c'est d'un sérieux :-)

Je teste Streetpage mais je suis mon seul voisin... www.streetpage.com

Video : Upgrading from Windows 1 to Windows 7 bit.ly

Les Blagues Catholiques: "L'évêque fait passer un exament aux futurs communiants.Il s'adresse à un premier enfant:
-Qu'a dit le Seigneur en instituant le sacrement du baptême?
-il a dit:'Je te baptise au nom du Père du Fils et du Saint-Esprit'!
-Très bien!Et toi demande-t-il à un second enfant, qu'a dit-t-il dit pour l'Eucharistie?
-Il a dit:'Prenez et mangez, ceci est mon corps, ceci est mon sang', répond le second enfant.
-Parfait! Et toi, demande-t-il à un troisième enfant, qu'a dit le Seigneur en instituant le sacrement du mariage?
-'Heu...Heu...Ah oui! C'est quand il a dit:'Mon Dieu, pardonnez-leur, car ils ne savent pas ce qu'ils font'?

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Everybody dies but not everybody lives (seen on 101senses.ch

Today : Use cases, business models and SSO

Yesterday I screwed up my bashrc file on my mac. Took me 15 min to fix. Start app as root is not easy when bash has lost the path to /bin...

Got activiti up and running ! #activiti

“@sc72_ La semaine je rêve de pouvoir dormir et le week-end je n'arrive pas à dormir plus tarde que 7h T_T” . Pareil...

RT @nouveauxmedias: Que va faire Google de ses 49 acquisitions de 2010 ? j.mp

Have a good weekend !

RT @ebouquin: Je l'attendais celui-ci ! RT @crouzet: Si t’es pas codeur, t’es pas auteur t.co

Safari unstable on my ipad...

RT @mbauwens: Added to the wiki: EBook User’s Bill of Rights: Created page with ' =Text= Proposed by Andy Woodworth : "Ever... http:/ ...

Apple versus het uitgeefbedrijf: een slechte deal! | Boekenvak: "Boek.be schaart zich achter dit standpunt en vraagt aan zijn leden uitgevers om alle onderhandelingen met Apple te heronderhandelen en niet in de iBookstore te stappen, tenzij Apple afziet van de 30% regeling.

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RT @elineanl: Ge-wel-dige taart van @Webclusive gekregen #eLinea instagr.am Bedankt!!

I converted a book to an ebook (Kindle and ePub) and I'm quiet happy about the result...

RT @jefmaesboekbe: Apple versus het uitgeefbedrijf: een slechte deal! j.mp via @AddToAny

No Shirts (111 Shirtless Men in Abercombie and Fitch) " bit.ly

That's it : my agenda is 95% booked in March.... If your are not in there, see you in April...

RT @lavenir_net: Le Tour des Flandres distribue sept wild cards bit.ly

Now going to get a new tire for my bike, by bike...

J'ai été recyclé ! Le résultat est étonnant... yr.cx

l'iPad2 c'est grâce à Mac. Mac qui ? Réponse ici : bit.ly

Chouette : RTBF - Le nouvel Aqualibi ouvrira ses portes le 30 mars à Wavre bit.ly

Just had a very efficient skype conf call with 3 people . Cool. Linked to collaboration : bit.ly

Today I had to read several documents for about an hour, so I took the opportrunity to use my ePaper eReader (iRex DR1000S). Since the iPad it has been a while I hadn't used it.

I was than thinking, why do I prefer my iRex when I know I'm going to work longer ?

First I can make annotations because it has a pen.

Second, it displays nicely A4 documents with nearly no distortion.

But in fact it's because I associate ePaper with "slow reading".   An iPad is very cool for "fast reading", you jump from page to page, back and forth, up and down. But when concentration is required those features become less relevant. You just need a "next page" button.

So there is a need for a lighter, different device when concentration is important. The question is : how often do you take the time to completely read a document ? When do you read for more than 30 minutes in the same document ?

"Slow reading" also asks the question of selecting a book. How are you goind to choose the ebook in the 1000s of eBooks out there. How are you going to find out that it's what you need ? With your tablet ? With your PC ? But than you are already reading. Are you going to switch device ? When ? How ?

The technology at our disposal doesn't solve that problem (yet). You'd need a Tablet to select what to read and and Paper to "slow read" it.

Only the entourage edge was going in this direction but I have read it has been stopped recently.

La déclaration des droits de l’utilisateur de livre numérique (ebook) « Bibliomancienne: "The eBook User’s Bill of Rights is a statement of the basic freedoms that should be granted to all eBook users.

The eBook User’s Bill of Rights

Every eBook user should have the following rights:

* the right to use eBooks under guidelines that favor access over proprietary limitations
* the right to access eBooks on any technological platform, including the hardware and software the user chooses
* the right to annotate, quote passages, print, and share eBook content within the spirit of fair use and copyright
* the right of the first-sale doctrine extended to digital content, allowing the eBook owner the right to retain, archive, share, and re-sell purchased eBooks

I believe in the free market of information and ideas.

I believe that authors, writers, and publishers can flourish when their works are readily available on the widest range of media. I believe that authors, writers, and publishers can thrive when readers are given the maximum amount of freedom to access, annotate, and share with other readers, helping this content find new audiences and markets. I believe that eBook purchasers should enjoy the rights of the first-sale doctrine because eBooks are part of the greater cultural cornerstone of literacy, education, and information access.

Digital Rights Management (DRM), like a tariff, acts as a mechanism to inhibit this free exchange of ideas, literature, and information. Likewise, the current licensing arrangements mean that readers never possess ultimate control over their own personal reading material. These are not acceptable conditions for eBooks.

I am a reader. As a customer, I am entitled to be treated with respect and not as a potential criminal. As a consumer, I am entitled to make my own decisions about the eBooks that I buy or borrow.

I am concerned about the future of access to literature and information in eBooks. I ask readers, authors, publishers, retailers, librarians, software developers, and device manufacturers to support these eBook users’ rights.

These rights are yours. Now it is your turn to take a stand. To help spread the word, copy this entire post, add your own comments, remix it, and distribute it to others. Blog it, Tweet it (#ebookrights), Facebook it, email it, and post it on a telephone pole.

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Le mot "Impossible" est juste une opinion...P.Coelho

RT @stevenn: twitterhelp: crashpad+internet gezocht voor donderdag 17u in dichte buurt ellipsgebouw bxl - voor confcal tot 18:30 RT appr ...

The dangers of Groupon for your brand – and its own | SCHMOOZY FOX bit.ly

Guy Kawasaki: Make Meaning | ire's morning|: "Now, exactly what does making meaning connote? And how can we do it?

Making meaning implies adding significance or value to something; doing something that is novel, relevant, appropriate, worthwhile and highly useful.
For example, in the context of Bangkok, you probably agree that opening another spa or internet cafe does not create much value, while coming up with an innovative traffic and transport concept for the metropolis represents a significant value proposition. As Guy Kawasaki points out, making meaning is all about making our world a better place. We can achieve this noble objective by following one of three paths toward meaningful value creation:
- increase the quality of life
Many truly great innovations in the history of humanity greatly increased the quality of people's life. Can you imagine how our daily lives have changed by the invention of the personal computer? What about mobile phones or the internet? How about air conditioning or electricity, not to mention airplanes, cars, and other means of transport. We need to ask: How can we increase the quality of life of our customers with what we're doing? Over 100 million products sold testify to how the iPod has increased the quality of life for music lovers around the world.

-Right a wrong
Take note of problems you encounter as you go through life on a list and look for ways to turn these problems into business or innovation opportunities. What annoys you and needs to be fixed? What does not work as well as it should? What is poorly designed and needs improvement? What unmet and often unarticulated need has not yet been addressed by the market? What really sucks and could be changed for the better by you? Online music is a good example: P2P-sharing services allowed people to easily find their favorite songs online. In October 2003, Apple righted another wrong by offering a legal way to acquire songs online with the opening of the iTunes Music Store.

-Prevent the end of something good
As the world changes, people vary in their perception of which of these changes are good and bad. Is there something good, beautiful, or wonderful that is about to come to an end due to changes in the environment? If you just cannot stand the fact that something good is about to end, turn the problem into an opportunity to start a business, an innovation project or a social movement. For example, in Africa, national parks with premium safari lodges help to preserve the beauty of the African wilderness while creating job opportunities for the locals and tourism income for the country and its entrepreneurs.

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