Author Archives: Chad W. Post

PEN World Voices: Make it New, Make it International (Dammit)!

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Chad Post of Open Letter Books criticizes the PEN World Voices festival for a lack of foreign content, bad planning, and no focus–and offers his ideal vision.

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Why Selling E-books at 99 Cents Destroys Minds

Chad Post, the publisher of Open Letter Books, explains why his company decided to sell e-books and price them at $4.99.

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#BEA11: The Secrets to Better Book Discovery

By Chad W. Post One of the key buzzwords of this BEA is “discovery.” In an age of abundance (as reported last week, more than  … 

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Reading in the Age of Screens

Editorial by Chad W. Post Contemporary life is lived through screens. Initially, it was the TV that invaded our families and took over our free  … 

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Serbia’s Geopoetika Publishes English Translations with an Eye Towards Foreign Rights Sales

By Chad W. Post Unfortunate as it is, the situation facing Serbian literature is incredibly common for “small language” cultures: although a number of Serbian  … 

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Amazon.com to Underwrite Best Translated Book Awards

PRESS RELEASE from Open Letter Books: October 20, 2010: Amazon.com has awarded the University of Rochester/Three Percent website a $25,000 grant in support of the  … 

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Russia’s Young, Exportable Writers

By Chad W. Post Back in 2000, the “Debut Prize” was established by the Pokolenie (Generation) Foundation to support Russian writers under the age of  … 

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From Frankfurt: OR Books Preaches Elegant, Direct Model

By Chad W. Post Speaking at both Tools of Change and the International Digital Rights Symposium, John Oakes of the newly launched OR Books elucidated  … 

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TOC Frankfurt Preview: Douglas Rushkoff on Upstart Publishing, Staying Human in a Digital World

• In advance of his keynote speech at today’s Tools of Change Frankfurt conference, Douglass Rushkoff discusses his new book Program or Be Programmed and the  … 

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Building a Case for Translations, Part 2: “It’s Not The Elegance of the Hedgehog“

• Last Friday, Chad Post argued for the need to prioritize how to increase readership of translated fiction instead of worrying first about how to  … 

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