Europe

Learn more about publishers and authors in Europe, one of the world’s most established book publishing regions.

Publisher Complaints Against Amazon Becoming Pervasive

The Digital Zone at the 2013 London Book Fair

Privately, publishers are raising concerns over Amazon’s term demands, listing of editions for which it doesn’t have territorial rights, and sourcing of titles from wholesalers.

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German Readers Finally Embracing Ebooks, Self-Publishing

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Discussions at this year’s Leipzig Book Fair proved that ebooks and self publishing are gaining wider acceptance in Germany, and readers are more open to digitization.

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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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Dolores Redondo: The Rising Basque Star of Crime Fiction

Dolores Redondo

Dolores Redondo’s novel The Invisible Guardian weaves the mythologies of the Basque culture into the reality of a contemporary world, making for an unexpected international hit.

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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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Italy’s Increasingly Agile Literary Agents

Marco Vigevani

While relatively few literary agents work in Italy, the evolving publishing industry is making them more essential. Agent Marco Vigevani describes the scene.

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dotbooks: Germany’s Digital Vanguard Meets Old-School Editing

dotbooks team: Timothy Sonderhuesken, Beate Kuckertz, and Sarah Mirschinka

After 20 years’ experience in German publishing, Beate Kuckertz has turned to a new challenge: starting a digital-first publisher in the print-focused German market.

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Buzz on “Swiss Millenium” Predicts Next Global Phenomenon

Switzerland's Joel Dicker looks set to follow in Stieg Larsson's footsteps.

Joel Dicker’s US-based crime novel ‘La vérité sur l’affaire Harry Quebert’ is racking up awards and is perhaps the hottest property on the international rights scene.

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Fighting to Build “Brand Bulgaria” in Literature

Elizabeth Kostova Foundation

For five years now the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation has fought to raise awareness of Bulgarian writing by sponsoring prizes, seminars and publications at home and abroad.

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Florence’s Timeless Bookstore for Expats and Travelers

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Florence’s English-language Paperback Exchange bookstore is as old as Christ was when he died and relies on the shop owners’ good taste—and that of its customers—to stay in business.

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