Taiwanese bookstore chain Eslite
is aggressively expanding beyond its borders, with new stores in Hong Kong
and several planned for mainland China, including one in a hotel.
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Do super-sized bookstores still
have a viable business model or are they being reduced to mere showrooms for
ebooks?
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More News from PP:
Our weekly
roundup takes in Cory Doctorow's conversion to data evangelism, reaction to
Patterson's wake up publishing ads, BEA's silly cupcake promo and more.
Publishing Perspectives'
Berlin-based contributing editor Amanda DeMarco is launching a new short-form
publishing company focusing on translations.
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From the Archives:
In what’s become a trend, Korean
publishers are opening popular bookstore cafes. Should more Western
publishers follow suit or is bookselling no longer part of their DNA?
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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