Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Can Foreign Authors Use China's Social Media to Acquire Readers?


   

China's Douban is experimenting with crowdsourced translations of English literature, including SF and short stories by David Mitchell. Can it help authors enter the market?
Discussion:
As punishment for price-fixing, the DOJ is demanding Apple reinstate buy buttons on competitors' apps. Is the punishment too much, appropriate, or irrelevant?
More News from PP:
Suvudu, Random House's online destination for science fiction and fantasy fans, launched Suvudu Universe, an online community for SF and fantasy bloggers.
From the Archives:
Agency pricing is all but dead and in the UK its aftermath has taught the industry with some hard lessons. It left many fearing even greater dominance by Amazon.

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