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The Translation Gap: Why More Foreign Writers Aren’t Published in America

By Emily Williams NEW YORK: Parts one, two and three of my series on scouting looked at American efforts to sell American books overseas. Today,  … 

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Inside the Secret World of Literary Scouts (Part III)

By Emily Williams In Part I we looked at the essentials of how scouting works and in Part II we discussed the changes scouting is  … 

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Does Book Scouting Have a Future?

By Edward Nawotka As our series on scouting has revealed, having inside information about the hottest books is very valuable to publishers, and scouts have  … 

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Inside the Secret World of Literary Scouts, Part II

By Emily Williams Part II: Scouting Changes with the Times NEW YORK: Last week in Part I we looked at the essentials of how scouting  … 

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Are Literary Scouts to be Envied?

By Edward Nawotka In Emily Williams’ continuing series about literary scouting (Part 1 & Part 2), she describes a seemingly mysterious world that seems both  … 

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What Have You Done to Get an Early Look at a Book?

By Edward Nawotka Literary scouts, as discussed in today’s feature article by Emily Williams, like much of those in the publishing industry, work in mysterious  … 

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