mitzi angel is the new president of the publishing house of larceny, strauss and giroux.a candy at simon & schuster, lisa lucas at pantheon and adrienne vaughn at bloob bloomsbury, usa. in other news, currently french law prohibits discounting the price of new books ask tree shipping. amazon s charges one cent to get around that, and the new legislation would set a minimum delivery fee. the french ministry of culture commented, quote, the law is necessary to regulate the distorted competition within onlinene book sales and prevent the inevitable monopoly that will emerge if the status quoer cysts. amazon argues that the law will hurt customers in rural areas of france. this other news, performing artist solange has started a lending library of rare books by black artists and writers. it contains 50 books that are available on a first come, first served basis. the enall rag collection has been selected by rosa duffy who owned the atlanta bookstore. for more information, go to fate huron.com. and according to, this tv --, this tv book scan, print book sales are up almost 11