News and opinion on the changing world of book publishing
Katie Lee Hull | March 2009
Of the nearly 200,000 books published in the United States each year, about 3% are translated. When you consider the category of literary fiction and poetry, that number shrinks to about 0.7%. That sliver of a pie graph was firmly placed in the back of Chad Post’s mind when he joined the University of Rochester [...]
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October 2005
Audiobooks Go Global, Competition Rises In Germany,
Yoshi Mixes Tunes in Japan
As PT continues its foray into the audio delivery of the word, we leave behind the car-loving Americans who drive twice the distance at a third of the cost, for the land of the TGV, the U-Bahn and the AVE. A land [...]
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Book-Banning Scare in Iran, Expats Unite in Turkey
Despite having completed all of the normal and rigorous procedures required to get permission from the government, Arash Hejaz, the Iranian publisher of Paulo Coelho’s latest international sensation, THE ZAHIR, was threatened and terrified last month by the authorities. The novel was the first [...]
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