Popular Scandinavian authors including Jo Nesbø and Stieg Larsson drive growing domestic demand for translated booksBritish readers are devouring foreign fiction in record numbers amid a mini-boom in translated novels, inspired by the success of Scandinavian authors such as Jo Nesbø.Among a string of high-profile launches, Penguin Classics is soon to publish a collection of Arabic short stories, entitled Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange, translated by the Cambridge academic Malcolm Lyons. It is the first time in 1,000 years that the earliest-known Arabic stories will have been printed in English. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Simon & Schuster's Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson by Paul Kimmage has been... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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E-books accounted for 9% of Bloomsbury's adult trade sales overall across the 12 months to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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TV shows and Hollywood blockbusters aren't America's only cultural exports. The book industry is also expanding overseas, according to a report released Friday by the Association of American Publishers that looks at book exports for the first time. Exports by U.S. publishers, which are dominated... Continue reading at Crains New York
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London, England – The World e-Reading Congress drew a number of influential speakers in London today, including Duncan Edwards, CEO of Hearst Magazines International, who highlighted the striking rise of tablet publishing. Hearst is ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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Octogenarian Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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One-time "The Late Show" editor Roly Keating has been appointed as the new chief... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has launched a consultation on plans to transfer the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Wow, what a swirl of good-news/bad-news last week for the media tablets aimed at the ereader market. As it turns out, the roller-coaster ride continues this week. comScore reported that the Kindle Fire from Amazon generated far more Internet activity in February than any other Android media... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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All hail the ebook! Seriously, if it weren't for this marvelous literary development, try saying with a straight face that you wouldn't at least take pause before adding a new title to your collection. Numbers are in from The Publisher's Association -- a group of 120 companies across the trade... Continue reading at Engadget
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Now that all of that Microsoft-related news is out in the open, Barnes & Noble's CEO William Lynch is ready to talk about the future. Fortune sat down with him to discuss the deal and what's next for the Nook. The answer to the latter is, at least in part, near-field communication. The exec... Continue reading at Engadget
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By James Sturdivant My favorite part of a very good keynote address from Josh Tyrangiel, editor of Bloomburg Businessweek, at this year’s Publishing Business Conference & Expo (see full coverage here ) came... Continue reading at Publishing Executive
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Microsoft is jumping into the fast-growing ebooks market by investing US$300 million in Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader and university business, as it looks to unlock Amazon.com and Apple's grip on the exploding tablet computer market. Continue reading at Stuff
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Digital book sales have gone up 54% in the past year to £243m but total book sales have fallen by 2%. Continue reading at BBC World
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Consumer ebook sales increased by 366% to £92m in 2011, with sales across all digital... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Faber is releasing a series of six short ebooks, called Faber Forty-Fives, which each draw... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The US print market has plunged 16% year on year in the first quarter of 2012, despite a record-... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy is to be published in Germany by Carlsen and Ullstein,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Pearson increased sales by 11% to £1.16bn in the first three months of 2012, it announced... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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LONDON (Dow Jones)--Pearson PLC (PSON.LN), the publisher of the Financial Times newspaper and Penguin books, Friday produced a healthy rise in first-quarter revenue, but warned profit will be down in the first half of 2012 due to seasonal effects an ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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Nearly a third of people in the UK own an e-reader, with a further 15% planning to buy one in the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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