A pair of Eastern European authors — Laszlo Krasznahorki and Nichita Stanescu — take home the 2013 Best Translated Book Awards.
For Publishers, The Long Term Is the Only Race Worth Winning
Chad Post’s keynote to the IPA Congress in Cape Town addresses the numerous paradoxes in contemporary publishing and prescribes taking a new, engaged attitude.
PEN World Voices: Make it New, Make it International (Dammit)!
Chad Post of Open Letter Books criticizes the PEN World Voices festival for a lack of foreign content, bad planning, and no focus–and offers his ideal vision.
Winners of Best Translated Book Award 2012 Announced
The Best Translated Book Award, founded by Three Percent and sponsored by Amazon, honored a book of fiction and a book of poetry on May 4.
The Three Percent Problem Available as an E-book, Buy on Friday
The Three Percent Problem: Rants and Responses on Publishing, Translation, and the Future of Reading is now available as a $2.99 e-book.
Want More Rights Deals/Translations? Court Editors with Culture
From the PP archives, Chad Post of Open Letter Books says the best way to get more translations is to take editors abroad and “court them with culture.”
2011 Best Translated Book Award Winners Announced
Poetry: Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry Fiction: Tove Jansson’s The True Deceiver translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal Each winning author and translator will receive a $5,000 prize sponsored by Amazon.com From the press release: April 29, 2011 — The winning titles and translators for this year’s Best Translated Book Awards …
Best Translated Book Award Finalists: A Showcase of Indie Press Excellence
By Ed Nawotka Chad Post, frequent contributor and friend to Publishing Perspectives, has announced the finalists for the third year of the Best Translated Book Awards. As always, it’s a cheat sheet for some of the very best foreign literature you can read in English. The list is also notable for the absence of any titles from Big Six publishers, …
SURVEY: Have You Ever Bought A Book Because of Twitter?
Evidence that Twitter and social media can sell books is largely anecdotal, so we want the facts. Take our survey! By Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-chief Scroll down to take the survey! Using social media to promote books, as discussed in today’s lead story, is less a novelty and more the norm. Naturally, the strategic application of twitter and social media can …
Reading in the Age of Screens
Editorial by Chad W. Post Contemporary life is lived through screens. Initially, it was the TV that invaded our families and took over our free time. Now it’s computers, smartphones, tablets; it’s email, digital files, the cloud. For better or worse, the past quarter-century (or more) has powered a move away from the physical and into cyberspace — especially in …