Melville House at ten years old: no longer “babes in the woods”
Ten years ago, Melville House founders and publishers Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians were “Babes in the tangled wood of modern publishing,” writes WWWord.com in its recent profile of the… 1 / Read more »
Et tu, Nancy Pearl?
Nancy Pearl, the reigning “Librarian of the Year” and widely acknowledged champion of all things library science, has done the unthinkable: partner with Amazon. BusinessWire reports: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)… 6 / Read more »
Reasons not to self-publish: a defense of small presses
Yesterday, Edan Lepucki in The Millions wrote a great piece on the perils of self-publishing and the benefits of working with a small publishing house. She also noted that “the… 5 / Read more »
VIDEO: Is English one of publishing’s endangered languages?
We read in Publishing Perspectives that English is no longer the lingua franca of the publishing industry in India because a large number of local languages are now being translated… Read more »
Spanish language publishing tragedy: Norma discontinues adult fiction and non-fiction lines
We wrote yesterday about problems with publishing in Latin America. Tragically, those problems were massively exacerbated a few weeks ago when the multinational Spanish-language publisher Norma decided to discontinue four of… Read more »
Problems With Publishing in Latin America
Last week, Pablo Dittborn (the Editor-in-Chief of Random House Chile) discussed issues with transcontinental publishing with Andres Hax in Publishing Perspectives. Their conversation was thought provoking and surprising, since we… Read more »
160 years of Moby Dick
The first US edition of Moby Dick was published 160 years ago yesterday. Happy birthday, namesake! In celebration, HarperCollins published a copy of the original contract for The Whale as signed by Herman… Read more »
Was Quentin Rowan just “sampling” the work of others?
Most of you have probably read by now about Assassin of Secrets, Q.R. Markham (aka Quentin Rowan)’s debut thriller that lifted choice bits from spy novels and political thrillers. The… 6 / Read more »
Turkish publisher arrested — here’s why
As many of you might now know, Ragip Zarakolu, the owner of Belge Publishing House, was arrested last Friday along with 40 other pro-Kurdish on charges of terrorism, though this… Read more »
Tougher times than usual for translators?
Every now and then translation becomes a hot topic. More often than not the new interest is prompted by some landmark new book; at the moment, of course, it’s Murakami’s… Read more »