German Buch News

Germany is among the world’s top book publishing markets. Find out what is going on in this reading powerhouse.

Algerian Author Boualem Sansal to Receive the 2011 Peace Prize

The German Publishers and Booksellers Association has chosen Algerian author Boualem Sansal to be the recipient of this year’s Peace Prize

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Germany’s Galiani Verlag to Publish Ai Weiwei’s Blog as Book

By Siobhan O’Leary BERLIN: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei had plans to temporarily relocate to Berlin when he was detained by police at Beijing airport on April  … 

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Mobile Library “Onleihe” Brings E-book Lending to Germany

By Siobhan O’Leary Library service provider DiViBib has released a new free Apple iOS app that will give readers access to a 2,000-title mobile library  … 

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Germans are Hot: Hangman’s Daughter Sells 100,000 on Amazon

by Siobhan O’Leary For years, those who move and shake in the international publishing scene have bemoaned the fact that only three percent of the  … 

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Germany Legislates Protection for “Content” Creators

By Siobhan O’Leary A new initiative backed by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels was announced earlier this month in Berlin, the goal of which is  … 

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German Kindle Store Launches with 25K Titles

By Hannah Johnson Amazon.de announced today the official launch of the Kindle e-bookstore in Germany with 25,000 titles, including “71 of 100 Spiegel bestsellers” as  … 

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Editing Enters the Digital Age in Germany

This article originally appeared in Über:blick — German Book Industry Insight, a publication produced by the Frankfurt Book Fair. DOWNLOAD: the complete Über:blick issue (PDF).  … 

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Bertelsmann Boosted By Sarrazin’s Million-copy Bestseller

By Siobhan O’Leary Random House parent Bertelsmann has announced its final results for 2010, the year of its 175th anniversary, showing signs nearly across the  … 

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Dryas Donates Proceeds From Travel Book to Japan Relief

By Siobhan O’Leary In an almost prescient move, German publisher Dryas Verlag has spent the last year donating 50 cents from every sale of the book Schattenläufer  … 

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German E-books Accounted for 0.5% Revenue in 2010, Breakthrough Expected in 2011

By Publishing Perspectives staff Germany’s book market is among the top three in size in the world, though e-books remain only a small percentage of  … 

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