Ebooks in Argentina
Today’s Publishing Perspectives article on the forthcoming Argentine ebook market is really interesting. Octavio Kulesz from Teseo delves into some of the difficulties facing Argentine publishers regarding the creation and sale of ebooks, making a case for Argentinean entrepreneurs to come along and save the ...
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Amazon and Ledig House
I posted about this over at Publishing Perspectives (where, apparently, the only picture Hannah has of me is from a few years ago when I was kind of fat—rectifying now), but the most recent addition to the Amazon.com list of grantees is the Ledig House International Writers Residency. The Ledig House is a fantastic ...
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Michael Orthofer @ The Bookstore
Where: The Bookstore, 11 Housatonic St., Lenox, MA. 01240 On the state of international literature (and especially translation) in the ...
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Internal Promotion and Blurbs
Over the weekend, in addition to proofing Mathias Enard’s Zone and rereading Julio Cortazar’s Cronopios and Famas, I started reading Justin Cronin’s The Passage. Now don’t judge—I’m a single guy in frickin’ Rochester who doesn’t own a TV and might possibly be spending too much ...
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This Week at Publishing Perspectives
This week I’m technically guest editing over at Publishing Perspectives, so we may not be posting quite as many things here. (Or at least not as many serious articles.) Ed Nawotka—the regular editor of Publishing Perspectives—put together the majority of pieces to run this week, including the one today ...
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The Autobiography of Fidel Castro
Most of the icons of the Long Twentieth Century (defined by most as stretching from the Great War to the suicide of the Soviet Union) have left the scene. If you were on team communism, chances are you in formaldehyde or you have turned over your kingdom to an heir. If you were on the capitalist side of the field, you’ve ...
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Ice Cold Crime, Cliches, and Bad Puns
Although I’m not a big reader of Nordic crime, it’s nice to know that places like Ice Cold Crime are out there, translating and publishing these titles, which probably appeal to a pretty wide audience. And Ice Cold Crime’s story — featured in this article — is kind of touching: Riding the ...
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