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Germany’s Bastei Lübbe Extends into Spanish, Mandarin

Apocalysis, a bestseller in Germany, has fared modestly in English. Will it do better in Spanish and Chinese?

Bastei Lübbe is eight months into its first English launch, with modest results. How will their brand-new Spanish and Mandarin content fare in 2013?

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A Global Digital Marketplace for Prestige Indie Print

Deborah Causton's anikibo.com

Print remains prestigious in the boutique realms of independent magazines, zines and comics. Berlin’s Anikibo promises to offer the best indie magazine selection — online.

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Why Is The New York Times So Behind on So Much?

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The New York Times has been increasingly slow to pick up on trends in the book business, but if the people who buy newspapers are likely still the same people who buy books, they deserve better.

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Ether for Authors: AWP’s Boston Foray, B&N’s Travails, McEwan’s Doubts

Near Boston, Revolutionary War battle re-enactors engage with latter-day Minute Men. iStockphoto/Sphraner

Porter Anderson’s weekly round-up of writerly buzz from around the web previews this week’s AWP conference in Boston, B&N’s bad news, Ian McEwan’s doubts about fiction and more.

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German Powerhouses Launch Tolino Ebook Platform to Take On Amazon

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German Thalia, Weltbild, Hugendubel, as well as Bertelsmann and Deutsche Telekom, have launched Tolino, a new ebook platform to compete with Amazon.

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PublishNews Brazil: Livrarias Curitiba’s Great Year, Brazil in Leipzig

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The latest publishing news from Brazil features bookseller Curitiba’s strong 2012 results, the Ministry of Culture’s resumes book promotion oversite, Brazilians at the Leipzig Book Fair, and more.

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Top German Booksellers + Bertelsmann + Telekom = Mega E-book Project

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This Friday, booksellers Thalia, Weltbild, Hugendubel, as well as Bertelsmann and Deutsche Telekom, will announce a new project. Speculators say it may be an ebook platform.

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Festival Neue Literatur Hits New York City This Weekend

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The Festival Neue Literatur features six up-and-coming German-language authors from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland appearing in New York City this weekend.

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Are Amazon’s Warehouses Equivalent to Modern Day Sweatshops?

Photos, such as this one, inside an Amazon warehouse were widely circulated on the Web earlier this year.

With trouble in the UK and Germany, it’s beginning to appear that Amazon’s warehouses are the global book distribution chain’s equivalent of modern day sweatshops.

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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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