Luxembourg is not France, and other reasons why French translators are right to be mad at AmazonCrossing
When AmazonCrossing—Amazon’s translated literature publishing arm— was launched a couple of years ago, there was optimism about it in the translator community. New places to publish translations and get paid… Read more »
What’s better for translated literature: starting a publishing house or publicizing what’s already available?
Last week saw an interesting, and surprisingly combative, exchange between a couple of important voices in the world of translation. It was all kicked off by a blogpost in the… Read more »
Andrew Wylie advises you “pick the plague!” over Amazon
In the middle of a cold, dark week, is there any greater gift than a new interview with Andrew Wylie? The man is tougher, more concise, and more quotable than… Read more »
Amazon Publishing opens up German-language arm
You would think that Amazon might have been cured of its experiments with publishing. After all, we at Melville have covered its failure to smuggle books into bookstores and its… Read more »
AmazonCrossing’s deep data pools not enough to make a splash
If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em? The news that Amazon has bought up the romance and crime fiction publisher Avalon and plans to add its backlist to its imprints… Read more »