Author Archives: Daniel Kalder

Daniel Kalder is an author and journalist originally from Scotland, currently based in Texas after a ten year stint spent living in the former USSR where he (more or less) picked up Russian. He has written two books about Russian life and culture and contributes features, reviews and travel pieces to publications around the world.

Slicebooks Aims to Take Re-mixable Ebooks Mainstream

Jill Tomich, co-founder of Slicebooks, based in Denver, CO.

Slicebooks offers tools for producing re-mixable ebooks. But the implications of this go far beyond generating more sales, explains co-founder Jill Tomich.

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Johannesburg’s Fourthwall: Publishing Experiments on the Periphery

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Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, editor of Johannesburg’s inventive art books publisher Fourthwall, discusses how publishing on the periphery of the world can give you an edge.

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Snapplify: Custom Publishing Apps Out of Africa

Snapplify produces traditional book apps...

South Africa is making itself known as a home for digital startups. Among the hottest is Snapplify, a digital publishing solutions provider with a growing global profile.

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Two Industries, One Job Market: Book Translation in the US vs. UK

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Lower rates and a lack of royalties make the US a less appealing market than the UK for translators, but there are some advantages and work is crossing the Atlantic.

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One Year of Translating, Selling Swedish Literature Direct

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Stockholm Text, a young publishing house translating and publishing Swedish literature in English, share lessons learned from their first year in business.

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A Global Digital Marketplace for Prestige Indie Print

Deborah Causton's anikibo.com

Print remains prestigious in the boutique realms of independent magazines, zines and comics. Berlin’s Anikibo promises to offer the best indie magazine selection — online.

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Killing the “Pay First, Read Later” E-bookselling Model

Yoav Lorch

The download first, pay-as-you-read ebook sales model from Total Boox in Israel promises a superior consumer experience by minimizing the uncertainty of book buying.

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Bringing the Best of Russian and Other Slavic Literature to the West

Metro 2034 is being offered in a Dutch tranlsation

Most if not all of the names Glagoslav’s publishes will be unknown to English speakers. This is the point, says the director of this young Anglo-Dutch translation house.

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Canonizing Russian Literature for the World…in English

Peter Mayer

Overlook publisher Peter Mayer’s ambitious 125 volume series, The Russian Library, seeks to establish a Russian literary canon that can be read by the world in English.

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Publishing is Seriously Nostalgic About Comics, But Why?

Marvel Comics

Using Sean Howes’ biography of Marvel Comics as a prism, Daniel Kalder considers the fate of comics, a declining art that makes billions in merchandise and movies.

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