Goodbye, Frankfurt Book Fair 2008
This somewhat maudlin post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. Although the Fair doesn’t officially close for a little while, for all intents and purposes, my time here is over. I’ve met with all the people I needed to meet with, visited all the stands I needed to visit, and drank enough beer to last me ...
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A Non-Deal at Frankfurt
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. (And hopefully this situation will be written up in the near future by someone with more info and journalistic skills.) In addition to talking about Marguerite Duras at the Frankfurter Hof (as Ed mentioned below), Anne-Solange, the rights director for Gallimard, ...
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Catalan Literature: One Year Later
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. Catalan Culture was last year’s Guest of Honor at the Fair, and put on a huge display of Catalan culture, and producing a number of slick publications and presentations to help make people aware of their rich literary tradition. (It’s sad, but I think a lot ...
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The European Union and Translation Culture
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. (Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the English-language version of this brochure—”* Great Translation by the Way”—is available for download from the NLPVF site. Here’s the Dutch version and if anyone can find the English, ...
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Book Piracy!
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. As Richard Nash and I agreed, the only thing that needs to be said about book piracy is that there’s no where near enough of it. Anyway, here goes: The possibilities of the internet and our increasingly-connected culture can make a publisher’s eyes ...
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Book Piracy!
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. As Richard Nash and I agreed, the only thing that needs to be said about book piracy is that there’s no where near enough of it. Anyway, here goes: The possibilities of the internet and our increasingly-connected culture can make a publisher’s eyes ...
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International Congress of Young Booksellers
This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. (There was also talk of an International Society of Young Publishers—more on that in the near future.) Athough most of the talk at Frankfurt is about the publishers, editors, agents, and authors, it’s also a great place for booksellers to connect with ...
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