Today's Feature Story:
New
research, particularly in South America, is looking at how the publishing and
copyright-holding industries can be seen as national wealth generators.
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Discussion:
In
relatively few instances fiction has influenced diplomacy, but how about
nonfiction? CN Times Books, a new Chinese-owned US publisher, aims to find
out.
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More from PP:
In
the Guardian, Pierre Astier and Laure Pecher examine the position of French
publishers, noting they remain isolated by hidebound rights practices.
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From the Archive:
In
a recent copyright trial, the courts were forced to decide if the characters
of Sherlock Holmes and Watson were so well-rounded that they couldn’t be
parsed.
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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.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Why Don't French Publishers Have a Global Reach?
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