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Defying traditional models of film distribution, The Silver Goat debuted on the iPad allowing it to instantly reach a broad international audience. 
Direct-to-consumer, enabled by digital, is a game changing paradigm, especially for content creators like filmmakers who sacrifice and compromise little.  
France's new Minister of Culture said the VAT rate for books would return to 5.5%, following its raise to 7% in April under Nicolas Sarkozy's government. 

Yale University Press is digitizing Stalin's immense personal archive, amounting to 400,000 pages, which includes much revealing and invaluable marginalia. 

Jeet Thayil answers questions about his novel Narcopolis, courting controversy in India, his reception abroad, and challenging convention in fiction. 

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