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: Greece and Turkey. 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 Adam Ross, Age of Iron, Allegiant, Almudena Grandes, Andrea Camilleri, Andrea Vitali, Anne Gesthuysen, Another Idea of Happiness, Antigone, Arnaldur Indridason, Beach Runners, Blackberry Winter, Blue Vein, bukre, Cafe Napolitano, Camilla Läckberg, Candela Light, Central Park, chasing a shadow, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Cristina Caboni, David Sedaris, donna tartt, Dora Heldt, E. L. Doctorow, Elizabeth George, Ender Haluk Derince, Faith the Lie, Four Slaps Blessed, France, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Germany, Gisa Pauly, Glenn Cooper, granny, Greece, Guillaume Musso, Homer and Langley, Ignacio Martinez de Pison, International Bestseller Lists, International Bestsellers, Italy, J. M. Coetzee, jean anouilh, jean-christophe rufin, Joel Dicker, John Giannellis, John Green, jonas jonasson, Katherine Pancol, Last Camellia, Lesley Downer, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Lifeblood, Luke Ralli, Luz Gabas, Madonna in a Fur Coat, Marc Levy, Maxim Huerta, maylis de Kerangal, Michael Kobr, Monica Carrillo, Mr. Peanut, muchachas, Muchachas Vol. 2, My London, Now Times Among Us, Off Toll Loneliness, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pantera, Paolo Giordano, Phillippe Torreton, repair living, Return to Your Skin, Ross MacDonald, Sabahattin Ali, Sarah Jio, Şebnem Burcuoğlu, Serkan Özel Kahraman, Simonetta Angello Hornby, Spain, Speak Up Husband, Stefano Benni, Stone and Honey, Strange Shores, Tazeoğlu, The Army of Sleepwalkers, The Award Winning SIsters FIccadenti, The Black and Silver, The Buried Angels, The Dream Night, The Fault in Our Stars, The Firestone, the girl who saved the king of sweden, the goldfinch, The Good Reputation, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The Last Concubine, The Last Dance, The Love Vampire Strikes Back, The Pyramid of Mud, the red necklace, The Summer of Blueberries, the three wedding manolita, The Trail of Scents, The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, The Wife Magic, Tschick, Turkey, veronica roth, victoria hislop, Violet Scented Stories, Volker Mallet, We're Sisters, wolfgang herrndorf, Wu Ming, Τιμ Κολινς, Χριστίνα Ζέμπη
It’s over, tape worms. Audio Renaissance published its last cassette this year: Janet Evanovich’s Lean Mean Thirteen. Random House Audio reports a format breakdown of 85% CDs and 15% digital downloads, with tape sales negligible. Retailers don’t sell cassettes, duplicators don’t duplicate them, and publishers don’t produce them anymore. Audible.com, often considered the benchmark of…Continue Reading
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Tagged Ana Maria Allessi, Association for Downloadable Media, Audible.com, Audio Publisher Association Conference, Audio Publishers Association, Audio Renaissance, Backstories: Tales from Behind the Mike, Beth Anderson, David Sedaris, Detroit News, Dickens, Don't Know Much About History, Griffin Technology, HarperCollins, HarperMedia, Harris Interactive, iAmplify.com, iTunes, Janet Evanovich, Lean Mean Thirteen, Louis L'Amour, Madeline McIntosh, Mary Beth Roche, Michele Cobb, Moby Dick, Murray Hidary, NPR, Penguin, Random House Audio, Siemens, Sony Reader, Steve Jobs, The Secret, This I Believe, TuneFlex, Ward's Auto Interiors Show
Copyright Conundrums in Iran, Swedish Suburbs & Chilean Death Publishing in Iran is a tough business. Just last year, Publishing Trends reported on the international stir caused by the Iranian government’s banning of Coelho‘s THE ZAHIR (PT June 2005). Eventually, the ban was lifted and Coelho turned up on Iranian bookshelves all over the country….Continue Reading
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Tagged AAP's International Copyright Protection Program, Arash Hejazi, Bari Pearlman, Berne Convention, Caravan Books, Coelho, David Sedaris, Gallimard, Gruppo Editoriale, Hussein Saffar Harandi, International Intellectual Property Alliance, Jonas Gardell, Le Clezio, Mahmoud Abmadinejad, Marquez, Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Pablo Simonetti, Patricia Judd, Piergiorgio Nicolazzini, Planeta, Priority Watch List, Sijthoff, U.S. Copyright Office
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
PEOPLE Candy Lee, formerly CEO of Troll Communications, has joined iFormation Group as the MD of Sales & Marketing. Launched in June 2000, iFormation is a partnership of The Boston Consulting Group, General Atlantic Partners, and Goldman Sachs that partners with “the world’s leading companies by investing in and operating new technology businesses that leverage…Continue Reading
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