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Buzz on “Swiss Millenium” Predicts Next Global Phenomenon

Switzerland's Joel Dicker looks set to follow in Stieg Larsson's footsteps.

Joel Dicker’s US-based crime novel ‘La vérité sur l’affaire Harry Quebert’ is racking up awards and is perhaps the hottest property on the international rights scene.

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Swiss to Reinstate Fixed Book Prices

The debate over fixed book pricing remains a complicated and volatile one in Europe. By Amanda DeMarco On March 18 the Swiss parliament approved a  … 

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Using Text to “Enhance” E-books and Other Insights from the 2011 Leipzig Book Fair

Germany’s second biggest book fair offers a barometer of what’s obsessing the world’s third largest publishing industry By Siobhan O’Leary LEIPZIG: Students from the HTWK  … 

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Google Books auf Deutsch

Interview by Nicholas Gary Yesterday’s news about Hachette Livre’s deal with Google to scan and sell 40 to 50,000 out-of-print books came as something of  … 

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Indie Swiss Pubs Promote Books on Juice Bottle Labels

By Siobhan O’Leary An association of independent Swiss publishers known as Swips is juicing up its marketing activities on behalf of its members. Literally. Founded  … 

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Swiss Publisher Spurns ISBNs, Opts for Direct to Consumer

By Siobhan O’Leary When independent Swiss publisher Urs Engeler lost the financial support of his patron last year, he opted to divest himself of the  … 

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Expatland: On Working in Publishing in Switzerland, Australia

By Daniel Kalder In part three of Publishing Perspectives’ series on publishing professionals working abroad, Daniel Kalder, himself a Scot transplanted to Texas via Moscow  … 

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Have Passport, Will Publish: Publishing Expats in Prague and West Australia

By Daniel Kalder In part two of Publishing Perspectives’ series on publishing professionals working abroad, Daniel Kalder, himself a Scot transplanted to Texas via Moscow  … 

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Switzerland Debates Details of Reinstated Fixed Price Laws

By Siobhan O’Leary Switzerland’s Council of States will be meeting on March 2nd to discuss the upcoming reinstatement of the country’s fixed book price law.  … 

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German Buch News: DFW’s Infinite Jest hits Germany, Blog Launched

By Siobhan O’Leary On August 24, the late author David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus Infinite Jest will finally be published in German. The translation itself  … 

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