Publishing Perspectives

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By Joanne Gail Johnson PORT-OF-SPAIN: In the Caribbean, we struggle, like other people around the globe, for increased media autonomy and international participation on our own terms ...

By Dennis Abrams Today we begin our one-year journey through the entirety of Marcel Proust's 20th-century masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, which will be taking place on our companion website, The Cork-lined Room ...

By Jake Adelstein TOKYO: The Japanese mafia, better known as the yakuza, has been the subject of fan magazines for decades ...

By Chris Artis NEW YORK: On Monday evening, more than a hundred publishing professionals gathered at the Diane Von Furstenberg Studio in New York City's meat packing district for the sixth annual "Let It Bee," a spelling bee fundraiser for the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP), the ...

By Edward Nawotka AUSTIN: "As a human being who reads, we are moving into a world where people don't make a distinction between how they read," says Bob Carlton, vice president of marketing for LibreDigital, an Austin, Texas tech company that provides digitization solutions for publishers ...

By Emily Williams BARCELONA: Random House Mondadori's Grijalbo imprint has been on a roll ...

By Olivia Snaije LEBANON: The UK-based Hay Festival has announced the shortlist of writers who will be part of Beirut39, a project that intends to give exposure to 39 of some of the most accomplished Arab writers under the age of 40 ...

By Edward Nawotka Grupo Planeta CEO Jesús Badenes is not afraid of the internet: "It would be easy to reduce the internet to mere diffusion, but that is too easy. ...

By Dennis Abrams You know you've been meaning to. You're pretty sure that you've got a dusty copy of Swann's Way sitting around somewhere ...

By Wen Huang Last week's Frankfurt Book Fair offered Western publishers a unique opportunity to interact with their Chinese counterparts first-hand ...

By Andrew Wilkins When I bought the English language rights to a beautiful children's picture book, The Red Piano, from French publisher Editions du Sorbier earlier this year, I wasn't really thinking I would have censorship problems ...

By Edward Nawotka On Wednesday at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Norwegian publisher Bjorn Smith-Simonsen, in his capacity as chair of the International Publishers Association's Freedom to Publish Committee, suggested that one of the first potential steps toward resolving the issue of censorship in ...

By Wen Huang and Edward Nawotka Criticism accusing the Frankfurt Book Fair of censoring dissident voices at this year’s Fair now seems premature. ...