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Book Piracy!

This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. As Richard Nash and I agreed, the only thing that needs to be said about book piracy is that there’s no where near enough of it. Anyway, here goes: The possibilities of the internet and our increasingly-connected culture can make a publisher’s eyes ...

Book Piracy!

This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. As Richard Nash and I agreed, the only thing that needs to be said about book piracy is that there’s no where near enough of it. Anyway, here goes: The possibilities of the internet and our increasingly-connected culture can make a publisher’s eyes ...

International Congress of Young Booksellers

This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. (There was also talk of an International Society of Young Publishers—more on that in the near future.) Athough most of the talk at Frankfurt is about the publishers, editors, agents, and authors, it’s also a great place for booksellers to connect with ...

New International Promotions

This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. In contrast to Russia, both the Korean government and the Romanian government have recently launched large projects to better promote their writers abroad. The Korea Literature Translation Institute (6.0 E 937) recently published some wonderful, quite elegant ...

Intro to Russia's Publishing Scene

This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog, and drew a comment . . . At the urging of the Frankfurt Book Fair and the German Book Office in Moscow, Russian representatives put on a special “Look at Russia” seminar earlier today. Vladimir Grigoriev, the deputy head of the Federal Agency for Press and ...

Publishing Argentina

This originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. This past spring I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in a Editors’ Week in Buenos Aires. It was an amazing experience, solidifying my lifelong interest in Argentine literature, and giving me a once-in-a-lifetime chance to visit the place where many of ...

Global Innovations and Market Opportunities for Educational Publishers

This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. (And this is one of the most serious ones I wrote.) Today’s EPP (Educational Publishing Pavilion) panel on “Global Innovations and Market Opportunites,” blended together two of the primary focuses running throughout this year’s Frankfurt Book ...