Tag Archives: Isabel Allende

International Bestseller Lists, January 2014

Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestseller lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This month, our four regular territories are joined by two more: Switzerland and Australia.  Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. All others are translated as literally as possible from the…Continue Reading

The Big Fix: European Book Markets Experiment with Pricing Policies

“Due to fixed book prices, we Germans have 25 spaghetti cookbooks, and you poor Americans only have three,” jokes Christian Sprang, lawyer for Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (the Association of German Publishers and Booksellers). Even though US publishers might quibble, there’s no doubt that book pricing methods are controversial around the world, and will probably…Continue Reading

Wild About Warsaw

The Warsaw Book Fair has evolved from a business-only mixer to what sponsors are now billing as an east-meets-west literary lotusland. Brenda Segel, VP Director of Subsidiary Rights for HarperCollins, contributes to this report from the front lines. As a first-time visitor to the Warsaw Book Fair, I found myself very pleasantly surprised. This busy,…Continue Reading