Nearly two years ago, France announced plans to help save its news business by giving every citizen a free newspaper subscription on their 18th birthday. Now it also wants to help them buy digital music, too.
Reuters reports: “Under the scheme, French residents who purchase a card – the Carte musique – to download music from subscription-based website platforms, will only pay half the cost of a
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