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Innovation Taking the Publishing Business Beyond Borders

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Smart publishers are thinking of their business as global instead of local. This may come as a surprise to some who see it as a novelty instead of the norm.

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Is There a Formula for an International Bestseller?

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Some bestselling novels are too culturally specific to resonate with an international audience. Those that are translated will always be subject to readers’ unpredictable whims.

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Bringing the Best of Russian and Other Slavic Literature to the West

Metro 2034 is being offered in a Dutch tranlsation

Most if not all of the names Glagoslav’s publishes will be unknown to English speakers. This is the point, says the director of this young Anglo-Dutch translation house.

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Being Dutch—and Digital—Offers Unique Publishing Opportunities

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The modest size of the Dutch market means publishers need to be creative and smart about digital investments, while a facility with English opens the world.

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Dutch Delay App Gives You Stories Tailored to Your Free Time

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A trio of Dutch publishers have released an iPhone e-reading app that offers readers the ability to choose a story based on their available time to read.

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UK’s Waterstone’s Pins Hopes on aNobii “Social Bookselling” App

Beleaguered bookseller Waterstone’s is counting on aNobii, a book-oriented social networking site originally developed in Hong Kong, to help save them. By Roger Tagholm LONDON:  … 

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Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Independent Publishing in the Netherlands

By Marleen Reimer When I think of American indie publishing, I think of Akashic Books, Graywolf Press, Grove, Melville House, Other Press, Seven Stories, the  … 

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Timo Boezeman on Guiding Dutch Publisher A.W. Bruna into the Digital Future

By Ashley Mabbitt • Timo Boezeman’s career reflects the broader changes in the publishing landscape. A former Web consultant, he is responsible for developing the  … 

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