Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This month, our four regular territories are joined by two more: Mexico and Nigeria. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. All others are translated as literally as possible from the…Continue Reading
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Tagged #Ops!, A Column of Fire, A Criminal Novel, A Girl Like Her, A. J. Finn, American Pastoral, Americanah, An Apartment in Paris, Andrea Camilleri, Anthony Onugba, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Ben Okri, Benito Taibo, Bill Clinton, Blink of an Eye, BoneMan's Daughters, Carme Chaparro, Carmen Mola, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dan Brown, Daniele Di Benedetti, Donna Leon, Dumebi Ezar Ehigiator, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Elisa Maino, Eric Vuillard, Far From The Heart, Ferdinand von Schirach, Fernando Aramburu, Frank Schatzing, Fred Vargas, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gail Honeyman, Guillaume Musso, Hard Dogs Don't Dance, Haruki Murakami, Homeland, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, It's Just A Phase Rabbit, James Patterson, Jochen Gutsch, Joel Dicker, john verdon, Jojo Moyes, Jorge Volpi, Juan Rulfo, Ken Follett, Kiran Desai, Kluftinger, Laetitia Colombani, Leila Slimani, Lorenzo Silva, Love For Four Seasons, Lucinda Riley, Maja Lunde, Manuel Vilas, Marc Levy, María Dueñas, Maxim Leo, Michael Kobr, Nacarid Portal Arraez, Normal Person, Norwegian Wood, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Ordesa, Origin, Paolo Giordano, Pedro Páramo, Philip Roth, Punishment, Raphaëlle Giordano, Remember To Smile, Robert Seethaler, Secret Temptation, Sinner, Still Me, Ted Dekker, The Braid, The Captain's Daughters, The Catalanotti Method, The Chemistry of Hatred, The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer, The Famished World, The Field, The Girl and the Night, The Gypsy Bride, The History of Bees, The History of Water, The Inheritance of Loss, The Last of Stanfield, The Little Prince, The Love Letter, The Order of the Day, The Perfect Nanny, The President Is Missing, The Scent of Happiness Is Stronger in the Rain, The Shack, The Spider's Web, The Thing Around Your Neck, The Tyranny of the Butterfly, The Woman in the Window, Three Men & a Bottle, To Devour the Sky, Virginie Grimaldi, Volker Klüpfel, When the Inmate Comes Out, White River Burning, Wm. Paul Young, Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One
Much has been written about this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, where game developers rubbed shoulders with web marketers, and the publishers that attended were confronted at one panel by exasperated authors and bloggers. But now that the bytes have settled (or healed, as the case may be), what are the useful takeaways? Most…Continue Reading
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Tagged AAP, Bill Clinton, Cookstr, Dead Space, Electronic Arts, gaming, Henry Jenkins, James Gee, Jim Schroer, Junction Point, South by Southwest Interactive, Warren Spector, Will Schwalbe, Wired
To celebrate this season of giving, PT asked publishers to nominate others in the industry who dedicate significant time and effort to “doing good.” We received an incredible response – so much so that we’ve limited this article to publishing individuals who “do good” at organizations unaffiliated with their day jobs. Below are some of…Continue Reading
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Tagged Barbara Lowenstein, Barnes & Noble Educational Publishing, Be Bold, Bill Boedeker, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Bob Miller, City Year, Dan Weiss, Deo Niyizonkiza, Echoing Green, GOOD magazine, Harper Entertainment, Hyperion, Idealist.org, Irene Skolnick, Joan Smith, Lowenstein-Yost Associates, Madeline Morel, Mary Poppins, Melinda Gates, New York City Outward Bound, NYTimes Job Market, Partners in Health, Paul Farmer, R. J. Julia, Read to Grow Foundation, Roger Cooper, Roxanne Coady, Seale Ballenger, SparkNotes.com, The Book That Changed My Life, Tracy Kidder, Tumaini Children's Home, Vanguard, Village Health Works, WK Kellogg Foundation
Many of you may have missed the literary event of the month as it took place in a red state (albeit in a blue town). To kick off the 10th Annual Texas Book Festival in Austin, David McCullough, Salman Rushdie, Liz Smith, and Alexander McCall Smith were on hand for the black-tie gala to raise…Continue Reading
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Tagged 10th Annual Texas Book Festival, Alberto Gonzales, Alexander McCall Smith, Ann Richards, Barnes & Noble, Bill Clinton, Dan Rather, David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Eli Wallach, Gary Wills, James Michener, Jane Smiley, Kinky Friedman, Laura Bush, Liz Smith, Mark Bittman, Myla Goldberg, Roy Blount Jr., Sandra Cisneros, Simon Winchester, Ted Allen, Texas Public Libraries
Chart-topping Bill Clinton and David Sedaris are probably too busy counting royalty checks to be upset with the NEA for its recent dismissal of literary nonfiction. But there are plenty of others in the literati who think the “Reading at Risk” survey made a big mistake to “only cover poetry, fiction, and drama at a…Continue Reading
German Media Guru Kicks Off Literacy Campaign With a Little Help From Friends With many of our overseas contacts on summer holiday, we thought we’d bring you a special report from Germany, where the Oprah-esque German media guru Elke Heidenreich is pulling out all the stops in her latest and most far-reaching attempt to get…Continue Reading
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Tagged Astrid Lindgren, BBC, Bertolt Brecht, Bill Clinton, Borsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, C.W. Ceram, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Cornelia Funke, Dan Brown, Diana Gabaldon, Eichborn, Elke Heidenreich, Erich Kaestner, Francois Lelord, Frank Schatzing, German Book Office, German Booksellers' and Publishers' Association, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Henry Holt, Hermann Hesse, Johannes Kerner, John Irving, Jutta Willand, Kaufhof, Knopf, Marianne Sparr, Mark Twain, Max Frisch, Michael Naumann, One City One Book, Oprah, Riky Stock, Robert Musil, Rolf Vollman, Rowohlt, Siri Hustvedt, Stiftung Lesen, Thomas Mann, Vintage, ZDF
