South Korea’s Paju Bookcity is
unique in the world: home to some 200 publishing companies and 10,000
publishing professionals, mere miles from the North Korea border.
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In Publishing Perspectives' Ether
for Authors, Porter Anderson looks at media noise about Amazon, at authentic
criticism, and agents' experience of rejection.
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From the Archives:
A visit to the Seoul Book Fair
reveals publishers are still wary of ebooks and blame smart devices for the
decline in reading, even as Korean culture has become hip abroad.
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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.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
10,000 Publishing People at Work: South Korea's Paju Bookcity
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