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So Many Book Conferences, So Little Time

By Edward Nawotka This week, while my colleagues were at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing conference in New York, I was doing something more  … 

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Brazil’s Ten Most Talked About Titles of 2009

By Ricardo Costa Last year was a great year in Brazilian publishing, which made it all the more difficult to identify the best books of  … 

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Will E-books Catch on Faster in the BRIC Countries than the US or Europe?

By Edward Nawotka Today’s lead story describes the launch of Gato Sabido, Brazil’s first e-bookstore. And in addition, news has been coming fast and furious  … 

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Brazil's First E-bookstore Opens for Business

By Ricardo Costa RIO DE JANIERO: On December 15, Brazil’s first e-bookstore — Gato Sabido (Smart Cat) — opened for business, offering approximately 400 titles  … 

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Buenos Aires Invites You to Read in the Streets

By Edward Nawotka Everyone knows that Buenos Aires is a good—no, great, book town—and has some 350 bookstore, or one for every 6,000 residents. What’s  … 

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Brazilian Publishers Still Growing Despite Global Recession

By Edward Nawotka Despite the general global economic downturn, Brazilian publishing has proven surprisingly resilient. For much of the past decade, the business has been  … 

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Bonus Material: Suggest Your Favorite Brazilian Authors for Translation

By Edward Nawotka When visiting Brazil (read more about Brazilian publishing) it became clear that any mention of Paulo Coelho among book lovers was likely  … 

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Reading Brazil

By Edward Nawotka RIO DE JANIERO: Last week’s news that Rio de Janiero will host the 2016 Summer Olympics raised cheers across South America, a  … 

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Bonus Material: Penguin Brings Its Classics to Brazil

By Edward Nawotka Brazilian book publishing is full of surprises –- one of them being that many classics of Western literature have never been translated  … 

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Global Trade Talk: Russia Over-Publishes, 1M Cool-er Sales, Brazil Book Fair Begins

By Hannah Johnson Publishing Trends reports that the Russian publishers are struggling, not only because of the economy, but also from the effects of over-publishing.  … 

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