By Edward Nawotka The big news of the day is certainly the Nobel Prize going to Herta Müller. No surprise, in the US Amazon is reporting “huge” demand for her books, according to Bloomberg News, which also says that Metropolitan books is going to do 5,000 copy hardcover runs of both The Appointment and The Land of Green Plums (Herztier), while …
Weekly Recap: UKs Myebook, Caribbean Fiction, Tokyo Book Fair
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How the Tokyo Book Fair Helps Rights Seekers
By Edward Nawotka “Japanese publishers don’t have a lot of experience selling rights, so we did what we could to make it easier,” said Eiko Han, spokesperson for the Tokyo International Book Fair, which opens tomorrow and runs through Sunday. “We’ve made it so exhibitors and visitors can put their rights information online. Businesses can search and, if they are …
Bonus Material: The Godzilla of Japanese Online Shopping
By Edward Nawotka If this were a Japanese monster movie Mothra would be played by Amazon.co.jp. Amazon in Japan has always been a contender, but one that is too often on the losing side of the fight. (Recently, for example, the company was asked to pay $119 million in overdue Japanese taxes after being accused of failing to properly report …