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PublishNews Brazil: 25,000 Portuguese Ebooks, April Bestsellers

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This week’s publishing news from Brazil: 25,000 Portuguese ebook titles are now available; Silver Linings Playbook takes the top spot on the foreign bestseller list.

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How Japan’s Discover 21 Hits Hot Trends to Produce Bestsellers

Yumiko Hoshiba, President, Discover 21

Tokyo’s Discover 21 publishing house, now launching in New York, has published a string of bestsellers at home by asking authors to address real-world issues with originality.

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What Do Horatio Alger and Book Piracy Have in Common?

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Patterns of book piracy can tell you a lot about the aspirations of a culture and what people really want to read. And it might direct you toward the next bestseller.

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Dolores Redondo: The Rising Basque Star of Crime Fiction

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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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PublishNews Brazil: January Bestsellers, Adapting Classics into Video Games

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From Brazil: Luis Fernando Verissimo is the sole Brazilian fiction writer on the January bestseller lists; Livro e Game is turning classics into educational video games.

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Analyzing 2012′s Bestselling Books and Ebooks in the US and UK

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Trade magazines Publishers Weekly and The Bookseller have put out new lists analyzing the bestselling books of 2012. No surprise, but E.L. James dominated.

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USA’s Top-Selling Print Books of 2012 from Nielsen

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It comes as no surprise that Nielsen BookScan’s top-selling print book lists for 2012 are dominated by Fifty Shades and the Hunger Games. See what else is on the lists.

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Know Thyself: Greek Books About the Economic Crisis

Christos Ikonomou's short stories are popular in Italy.

Greek books are not widely translated, but a 40 year-old book of aphorisms, On the Unhappiness of Being Greek, has become a bestseller in Germany.

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PublishNews Brazil: Priests Dominate Bestsellers, Publishers Fight “Biography Law”

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As in May, Agape Jr. dominates the bestseller list in Brazil (expect 50 Shades to bump it next month), meanwhile publishers protest anti-unauthorized bio law.

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Scholastic Editor/Author David Levithan: No Rules of Engagement

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‘Everything comes down to a kid reading and using their imagination to color in the words,’ says Levithan, ‘but the way we can engage them continues to change.’

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