The Norwegian Non-fiction Writers And Translators Association (NFF)

The Norwegian Non-fiction Writers And Translators Association (NFF) is an organization for writers and translators of all kinds of non-fiction literature. Membership is open to writers and translators who have published at least 100 pages of non-fiction, and the association has approximately 5300 members.

NFF secures and protects the professional and economic interests of authors and translators by negotiating contracts and agreements with public and private institutions.  

The book: Between ink and hyperlink

Tore Slaatta and Helge Rønning's (photo) report on trends in the international publishing industry, entitled The Book: Between Ink and Hyperlink, is now available in English.

Download the report in PDF format here.

The Norwegian language originalMellom perm og skjerm can be found here.

The European Commission sets up a Reflection Group on digitisation

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has announced that the European Commission will set up a reflection group on the digitisation of cultural works.

Maurice Lévy (CEO of French communications company Publicis), Elisabeth Niggemann (Head of the German National Library) and Jacques De Decker (Belgian writer and journalist) will be entrusted to come up with recommendations on how best to speed up the digitisation, online accessibility and preservation of cultural works across Europe.