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Booksellers, Multinationals Battle Over Spain’s E-book Buyers

Casa del Libro's Xavi Sola and the Tagus e-reader

Spain’s biggest bookseller Casa del Libro, France’s Fnac, America’s Amazon, and several smaller competitors have turned Spain into an e-book battleground.

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Graphic Novelist Alex de Campi Uses Kickstarter to Sell Print, Film and Foreign Rights

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Graphic novelist Alex de Campi is using Kickstarter to raise $27,000 to fund production of her latest project, including selling print, film and foreign rights.

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The Changing Face of Book Rights

International Rights Directors Meeting in Frankfurt 2010

Agents sound off on key emerging markets, digital issues, agents-turned-publishers, the growth of film rights, and more prior to the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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Edith Grossman Frowns: On the Challenges of Translation in America

Edith Grossman, the grand dame of literary translation

A conversation with Edith Grossman about her book Why Translation Matters and the challenges facing the literary translator in America.

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Error-Free E-books Will Come “When Cars Can Drive Themselves”

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Why are there so many damn errors in e-books? One frustrated reader sought answers from a prominent digital publisher and two conversion houses.

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Bad Decisions, Worse Luck: How Borders Blew It

Borders Magic Shelf

Firing its community relations coordinators, handing Amazon its web site, “category management”…Why 2001 was the beginning of the end for Borders

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Publishing in India Today: 19,000 Publishers, 90,000 Titles, Many Opportunities

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India’s publishing industry faces rising challenges for editorial departments, new business models for distribution, and the rise of agenting in India.

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The New Midlist: Self-published E-book Authors Who Earn a Living

The author's husband, Michael J. Sullivan has earned a respectable living self-publishing e-books...

Everyone knows the superstars of self-publishing, but there are numerous others earning a living, selling foreign rights, and being courted by traditional publishers.

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Learn the F**king Rules!

Grammatical, spelling and formatting errors in books and e-books are becoming more commonplace, but do overstretched publishers give a damn?

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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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