Reading the World 2008 — Some Changes

As most of you know, Reading the World is a unique collaboration between independent booksellers and publishers to promote literature in translation. During the month of June (yes, it used to be May, but that’s one of the changes), bookstores across the country display works of literature in translation along with brochures and posters featuring the artwork of Peter Sís.

In order to make the program more effective and inclusive, we’re going to be instituting a few changes for year four. The big change is that the Reading the World 2008 list will be made up of 25 titles from 15 different publishers. So we’ll be adding on five new presses and streamlining the selections so that stores will be able to display all of the titles and interested readers will have a better chance of being able to read a majority of the books over the course of the year.

The list of RTW 2008 titles will be announced in November, and as alluded to above, Reading the World month will take place next June.

There are other ideas in the works, and we’ll be sure to post all the information as things are finalized.