Brainstorming at the Spa in Matera, Italy brings together women writers for a unique opportunity to workshop their recent work. Claude Nougat reports on the latest session.
Sam Garrett, English translator of Herman Koch’s The Dinner, and Tim Parks, translator of Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone, reflect on the challenges of each respective work.
An American and an Italian crossed the language barrier to produce a gorgeous new children’s book, Jemmy Button, along with a common language of creative co-production.
In China children’s books are for indoctrinating good citizens and instilling morals, but elsewhere, kids books are becoming increasingly entertaining, enticing and personal.
Porter Anderson’s roundup of Web buzz looks at the deluge of data coming out of confabs in Italy, B&Ns battle with S&S, Sebastian Posth’s German analytics, and much more.
A preview of the 50th Bologna Book Fair includes the TOC Bologna program, Sweden as the Guest of Honor Country, and a list of award winners recognized during the fair.
Porter Anderson’s weekly round-up of Web buzz for authors takes on the fate of the ISBN, the idea of the author platform, the prospects for used ebooks, and more.
Italy’s 2013 IfBookThen conference on digital publishing takes place next week and opens to a new European synergy, thanks to partnerships with Sweden and Spain.
To mark its 50th anniversary the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, will award six new prizes for publishers at the forefront of innovation and creative editorial choices.
PP’s May Column for Italy’s Giornale della Libreria: Vertical Publishing
Publishing Perspectives has begun a monthly column to Italian publishing trade journal Giornale della Libreria. This month we look at vertical publishing.