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Amazon Crossing opens up submissions in 13 new languages
Amazon Crossing, the translations imprint of Amazon Publishing, has long been asking readers and publishers to recommend non-English language books for translation into English, but with the caveat...
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The Hot Sheet Reviewed (first November 2017 edition)
The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter Anderson and Jane Friedman, and reviewed here every other Sunday as one of the best twice-monthly...
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2018 International DUBLIN Literary Award shortlist announced
The International DUBLIN Literary Award is preparing for its 23rd final in June, and the ten shortlisted books have just been announced. Only two of the authors are Irish, and that makes up half the...
View ArticleSão Paulo International Book Biennial sells 100,000 tickets in advance....
1,500 hours of activities are lined up for the 25th edition of the São Paulo International Book Biennial next month (August 3-12), up from 1,300 hours in 2016, and with a budget of R$ 32 million (US $8...
View ArticleTen global publishing stories not to be missed. 11 July 2018 collation
The global publishing market has never been more exciting, and every day myriad publishing stories cross my screen that I’d love to develop here at TNPS, but there simply isn’t time. They do make the...
View ArticleChinese bot translates 300-page book from English to Chinese in 30 seconds...
This is a post that will send shivers down the spines of translators everywhere. First the bad news (if you’re a translator – great news if you’re a publisher!). India’s YourStory reports that a...
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The Handmaid’s Tale released in UAE as Arab book market globalisation builds
Margaret Atwood’s famous dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale is available in Arabic – for the first time ever. The internationalisation of the Arab book markets continues apace, and is epitomised by...
View ArticleItaly’s Traduzione Libri becomes the latest casualty of Amazon’s CreateSpace...
Ever since the first hints were dropped that CreateSpace was not long for this world and indie authors would be shunted into KDP Print there has been a question mark over publishing books in foreign...
View ArticleStart The Day Global: Five not-to-be-missed publishing stories from around...
Palestine, Mongolia, Russia, Indonesia and New Zealand are on the menu for today’s Start The Day Global selection, and if you’re thinking none of these markets are worth a second thought, then you...
View ArticleSouth Sudanese novel wins PEN Translates Award. Almost two thirds of awarded...
When we think MENA literature we often don’t get past a handful of key North African and Middle East countries and authors that dominate the regional literary scene, so it’s especially exciting this...
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