A panel at the IDPF Digital Book Conference this Wednesday asks, is Amazon good for readers? Tell us what you think.
Call for Stories: Women Executives in Publishing
Publishing Perspectives would like to hear from women executives in publishing about the leadership challenges they face and how they envision the future.
Poland’s Book Market Has Big Potential, Many Challenges
IPR License and agent Lucy Abrahams look at the Poland, one of Europe’s dynamic developing book markets, one with huge potential but also many challenges.
As Seen from Uganda, “African Writing is Alive and Well”
The Ugandan International Writers Conference revealed a wide-variety of new initiatives aimed at elevating the professionalism of African writing.
The Old Order in UK Publishing is Passing Away
With three leading figures in UK publishing passing away in the past few weeks there has been a palpable sense of an old order changing.
Using UX Design to Upgrade the RX — Reader Experience
‘We are finally shedding archaic typographic rules, and technology now allows emotion to return to printed text,’ argues Anthony Franco of EffectiveUI.
Rochester Translation Residency is Like “A Start-up Incubator”
For the young Bulgarian translator Izidora Angel, winner of the Literary Translators’ Residency at the University of Rochester, there is much to experience.
Are We Publishing Too Many Literary Translations?
Alex Zucker, translator and co-chair of the Translation Committee at PEN, wonders whether more focus on fewer translations would help the books sell better.
Spanish Publishers Frustrated By Lack of English Translations
A recent day-long event in New York highlighted the travails Spanish-language publishers have finding traction for translations in the US market.
France, Germany, Italy, Poland Call for Lowering VAT on Ebooks
The Culture Ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Poland have joined together to campaign for the EC to charge the same VAT for ebook sales as print.