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Have you paid for an ebook you could not keep? Have you bought an ebook and then found you could not download it, move it to another reader or keep it without the seller’s app? I’m collecting real examples for an article. Reply or message me. Names can remain private. #Books #WSocialBooks

You bought the ebook. Why can’t you keep the file? Some ebooks work only in approved apps or devices. Paying readers deserve a copy they can keep and read without the seller’s service. Any limits should be clear before payment. This honesty should be standard everywhere. #Books #WSocialBooks

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Oil Prices Dominate G20: At the G20 Energy Ministerial in Houston, Sep. 14–16, Brent near $110 and $1m a day tankers expose the limits of the response. Reserves may ease prices, but can’t repair pipelines or secure Hormuz. Repealing US climate rules increases the risk. #Europe f.falahmousa.com/G20

The G20 Is Chasing the Wrong Solution: Oil Prices Dominate the Meeting

The G20’s focus on reserve releases and new drilling overlooks infrastructure, shipping security and long-term energy resilience.

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What does Apple know about you? At privacy.apple.com, you can request a copy of your account data. EU Privacy Law also lets you ask why a company uses your personal data and who receives it. Privacy should mean being able to check, not just trusting a promise. #Europe

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Did a film producer contact you? Scammers are sending writers fake offers to turn their books into films. They begin with praise, then ask the writer to pay for services. A real producer should pay for your rights, not charge you. Verify the company independently before replying. #Books

Lower fees created jobs Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia joined SEPA, Europe’s system for cheaper euro transfers. Albanian says it saves €2,500 a month and hired more staff. This is European integration with a clear result: lower costs and new jobs. #Balkans #Europe f.falahmousa.com/SEPA

For Alketa Noni low-cost euro transfers for cross-border payments save her time and money she can spend expanding operations, investing, and hiring new staff.

Second-hand goods can have a guarantee: Bought a used phone, bicycle or appliance from a professional seller in the EU? Rules normally give you a two year legal guarantee. Shops should make this clear before you pay. #Europe Read EU’ consumer guidance: f.falahmousa.com/shopping

Guarantees on goods bought in the EU - Your Europe

Read how to claim the 2-year legal guarantee or the commercial guarantee of durability for EU purchases, know the difference, read what the EU guarantee label means, how to get a repair, replacement o...

Falah Mousa @falahmousa.wsocial.eu · 12/09/2026

Clean air cannot wait Burning coal and wood to heat homes adds to air pollution. EU Preliminary 2025 data show 11 monitoring sites in Bosnia and North Macedonia exceeded the EU’s annual fine particle limit. Families need help to afford clean heating. Clean air should not depend on income. #Balkans

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Falah Mousa @falahmousa.wsocial.eu · 12/09/2026

Authors deserve a say #AI companies train their systems on books. The European Parliament wants clearer licensing rules. I think authors should be able to refuse, or agree a price for using their work. #Books #Europe

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Falah Mousa @falahmousa.wsocial.eu · 12/09/2026

Free ISBN? I’d choose my own Amazon’s free ISBN identifies your print book, but cannot be reused with another publishing service. I’d get my own to publish the same edition through different services without changing its number. #Books

Falah Mousa @falahmousa.wsocial.eu · 11/09/2026

I’m Falah Mousa, an author and researcher. Here I examine EU decisions, life and change in the Balkans, and books worth reading and discussing. I explain the background, check the evidence and offer my own view. www.falahmousa.com #Europe #Balkans #Books

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I am an author and researcher dedicated to political, cultural, security, and humanitarian studies, with a particular emphasis on the Arab world, the MENA region, and the Balkans.

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An ebook isn’t accessible just because it downloads EU accessibility rules have covered ebooks since June 2025, with exceptions. A #blind reader should be able to buy and read a book independently. Publishers should show what works, not just promise access. #Books

Deported to the Balkans? Some EU governments want to send people refused asylum to centers outside the EU. Balkan countries could host them in return for funding. But if these people cannot go home, who looks after them who pays for years of care? Read: f.falahmousa.com/balkans #Balkans #Europe

Tourists need beds. Workers need homes: Holiday rentals can leave fewer homes for locals. #Croatia raised taxes on short-term rentals in 2025. Can the waiter serving your dinner afford to live nearby? That tests tourism’s success. #Balkans See IMF report: f.falahmousa.com/homes

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Falah Mousa @falahmousa.wsocial.eu · 08/09/2026

An ebook you must travel to read The British Library keeps some ebooks under legal deposit. You can find them in its catalogue, but you must visit the library to read them. Preserving books matters. So does making them accessible to readers. #Books Source: British Library: f.falahmousa.com/Library

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Albania wants to join the EU, but still allows luxury resorts on protected land. People have protested for 100 days. I don’t think a tourism project should matter more than the people who live there or the wildlife they are trying to protect. #Balkans f.falahmousa.com/Flamingo

Albania: Why Build Resorts on Protected Land? And Who Decides What Happens to Albania’s Coast: Residents or Investors?

It’s been 100 days of the “Flamingo Protests” testing whether Albania's European future will protect the environment.

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Falah Mousa @falahmousa.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026

I am Falah Mousa, an author and researcher. I write about books, publishing, culture, society and ideas that deserve serious discussion. My articles and books are available at www.falahmousa.com. #Books #Publishing

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I am an author and researcher dedicated to political, cultural, security, and humanitarian studies, with a particular emphasis on the Arab world, the MENA region, and the Balkans.

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Falah Mousa @falahmousa.wsocial.eu · 05/09/2026

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s election campaign has officially begun, and monitors have already recorded hundreds of irregularities. The real test is simple: will any party explain what it will change, how much it will cost and when it will be done? #Balkans

Falah Mousa @falahmousa.wsocial.eu · 05/09/2026

Some of the best books we read come from a personal recommendation. Which book would be worth discussing here, and what makes it worth reading? #WSocialBooks #Books

WHY DO OLDER BOOKS BECOME HARD TO FIND? A publisher can keep a title technically available while doing little to help readers discover it. Should publishers explain how they support older books, or is attention reserved for new releases? #WSocialBooks #Books

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WHEN SHOULD A REVIEWER STOP READING? Finishing every book may sound fair, but a reviewer also owes readers an honest account. If a book is abandoned, should the review explain why, or should unfinished books receive no public judgment? #WSocialBooks #Books

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WHO IS WORTH FOLLOWING FOR BOOKS ON W? I created a Starter Pack of publishers, reviewers, booksellers and serious readers. It is for useful book discussions, not sales. Which account should be added? #WSocialBooks #Books wsocial.eu/start/did:pl...

WHO ORDERED HER MURDER? Malta’s investigative #journalist was killed by a car bomb in 2017 while exposing corruption and links between politics and business in Malt. Nearly nine years later, Malta and Europe still do not know who ordered her killing. Attached are more details. #Europe #Books

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1/6 WHO WILL OWN BALKAN TOURISM? Bosnian, Serbian and Albanian groups are buying and developing hotels and resorts across the region. This may change who earns from tourism, how destinations are developed and what Western European visitors find when they arrive. #Balkans

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SCHENGEN RULES AND BALKAN TRUCKERS Truckers from BiH, Serbia, North Macedonia and Montenegro plan to block EU borders on 14 Sept over Schengen stay limits. Should rules designed for visitors apply in the same way to professional drivers working across borders? #Balkans

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THE VALUE OF A REVIEW A serious review does more than recommend or dismiss a book. It explains what the book is trying to do, where it succeeds and where it fails. That kind of criticism is becoming rarer, but more necessary. #WSocialBooks #Books

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Who Decides Where €409bn Goes? The EU plans about €409bn for competitiveness, including a €234bn new fund. Big business wants a formal voice in setting priorities. Companies should be heard, but those hoping to benefit from the money should not shape the rules. #Europe f.falahmousa.com/Readit

Who Decides Where Europe’s Money Goes?

As part of its new economic stimulus package, the EU has plans to spend hundreds of billions of euro's on Research & Technology as well as on European Industry. This includes the proposed

Who Pays for Europe? Europe says it wants stronger defence, more AI, better infrastructure and greater energy security. But six major contributors want the EU budget cut by hundreds of billions. So what exactly should Europe stop paying for? #Europe

BALKANS VOICES ON W This feed brings together reporting and analysis on politics, democracy, the economy and daily life across the Balkans. To join, follow @falahmousa.wsocial.eu and use #Balkans. Travel promotion, advertising and unrelated posts are excluded. Suggestions are welcome.

BOOKS & PUBLISHING ON W This feed brings together serious posts about books, publishing, reviews and how books reach readers. To join, follow @falahmousa.wsocial.eu and use #Books or #Publishing. Sales spam and unrelated promotion are excluded. Suggestions are welcome.

KOSOVO’S POWER PROBLEM Kosovo A and B are coal power plants run by the state-owned KEK. KEK’s licences to generate electricity at the plants expire on 4 October. The regulator cannot renew them because its board lacks a quorum. Could political deadlock threaten power supply? #Balkans

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WHO DECIDES IF A BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY AI? Pangram an AI detector said that much of the novel Shy Girl was AI-written, and the publisher Hachette later cancelled the book. If these tools can affect whether writers are published, should writers have a right to challenge the result? #Books

Anna Zeiter @anna.wsocial.eu · 02/09/2026

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BOOKS NEED A COMMUNITY ON W A Books & Publishing community could help independent books and publishers reach people who would otherwise never discover them. @matsps.wsocial.eu @wsocial.eu @anna.wsocial.eu Would #W consider creating one, or letting users build communities themselves? #Books

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AFTER A FOREST BURNS, SHOULD WE REBUILD THE SAME FOREST? After the fire at Serbia’s Deliblatska Peščara, experts are debating which trees should return and whether to wait before replanting. In a hotter climate, restoration may mean adapting the landscape, not recreating the past. #Balkans

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WHO DECIDES WHICH BOOKS BECOME VISIBLE? Independent publishers now have their own weekly bestseller list, based on sales through independent bookstores. It is a small change with a bigger question: can publishing build discovery systems outside the dominance of the biggest firms? #Books

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CAN A COUNTRY CONTROL ITS AI WITHOUT ITS CLOUD? UNDP is testing sovereign cloud infrastructure for public-sector AI, reducing reliance on major foreign providers. The real question is no longer who has AI, but who controls the infrastructure beneath it. #AI www.falahmousa.com/CAN-A-COUNTR...

Iceland has voted against restarting talks to join the EU. The result was close: 52.8% voted no and 47.2% voted yes. Many voters were worried about fishing rights and national control. What would the EU need to change before Icelanders reconsider?

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AI is already being used by banks and financial companies. The concern is simple: if many banks use similar AI systems, one serious error or cyberattack could affect them all. Are regulators prepared for this risk?

China’s factories have slowed for a second month. Weak demand at home could lead Chinese companies to sell more goods abroad at lower prices. That may help consumers, but it could hurt European manufacturers. Which European industries are most at risk?

WHAT MAKES YOU ABANDON A BOOK? For me, it is rarely a slow opening. I stop when the characters do not feel believable or the writer keeps explaining what the story should reveal on its own. What makes you put a book down, and what keeps you reading past the first chapter?

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READING AND LITERACY ARE NOT THE SAME A person can recognise every word on a page and still miss the argument, the evidence or the manipulation behind it. Literacy means understanding, questioning and judging what we read. How should schools teach this in the age of short videos and AI summaries?

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AI-generated copies make it harder for readers to know which book is genuine. Independent authors need one verified place linking to their official editions. I keep my four eBooks and authorised purchase links here: www.falahmousa.com

I write books for readers interested in lives shaped by war, injustice, identity and social change. My novels are set in Albania and post-war Kosovo, while my nonfiction examines hatred and population decline. Explore all four eBooks: www.falahmousa.com

Falah Mousa @falahmousa.wsocial.eu · 31/08/2026

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION THAT SAVES PEOPLE MONEY Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia are not EU members, but they have joined Europe’s bank-transfer system. Sending €5,000 used to cost about €38. It can now cost about €4. That is a benefit people can understand. #Balkans

Falah Mousa @falahmousa.wsocial.eu · 31/08/2026

EUROPE IS REGULATING EMPTY SPACE New EU packaging rules are starting to apply. Online retailers must reduce unused space in delivery boxes, while all packaging must be recyclable by 2030. A small design rule could cut material, transport, and waste. Will shoppers notice? #EU #Europe

Falah Mousa @falahmousa.wsocial.eu · 31/08/2026

A BOOK CAN DISAPPEAR WITHOUT BEING BANNED Readers cannot find titles that platforms and libraries cannot describe properly. Publishers must feed different metadata systems. Visibility is now partly a data problem. Who decides the categories? #Books #Publishing