How to Sell Books in France (Part III of the Study Trip Posts)
OK, so despite my best efforts, I don’t really have an overarching design to all of these posts about the study trip. I do have ideas about what I’m going to write about tomorrow (good/bad of eBooks and pricing) and on Friday (authors and business models), but I can’t actually imagine that reading these from ...
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French Study Trip (Interlude)
As is only appropriate for someone writing about technology, publishing, and audience development, I’ve been posting all of these French Study Trip posts on my Facebook account as well. Personally, I don’t imagine anyone ever reads these (did you see that one yesterday? It was like the War & Peace of ...
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Drawing Out the Meta-Concepts
There are any number of ways to approach the idea of eBooks and the havoc (and joys!) they might play on the business of publishing. As I alluded to yesterday, our group broke into a few different camps relating to this: there was the corporate side of things (Maja from Hachette, Molly from Penguin, Julia from Harper) whose ...
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Danuta Borchardt discusses Pornografia
Where: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome acclaimed translator DANUTA BORCHARDT for a conversation about her translation of Witold Gombrowicz’s novel Pornografia. Witold Gombrowicz wrote Pornografia after leaving his native Poland for Argentina in ...
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French Study Trip
We’ll have a few other sorts of posts going up this week (like maybe, finally, a few new book reviews—this fall has been rather rough on our schedule, but I have pieces in the works on Anonymous Celebrity by Ignacio de Loyola Brandao, The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, and Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint), but ...
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Screening of The Last Letter and a discussion of Vasily Grossman
Where: NY Institute of the Humanities, New School Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 6:00 PM: Film screening of Frederick Wiseman’s The Last Letter (a film based on Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate) 7:30 PM: Fred Wiseman, Walter Murch, Timothy Snyder, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Chris Hedges ...
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2 for $22 (reboot)
I know it feels like like self-promotion day on Three Percent, but this bit of promotion is important . . . really (at least to those of you who’ve written in asking about it). The other week we launched an awesomely great deal with a catchy name: 2 for $22. The deal is this: Choose any 2 books for $22 flat (not even ...
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