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Harper to publish in Hindi

HarperCollins is ready to take on the Hindi literary world through its imprint HarperHindi, reports Zee News. The imprint is to be launched at Willow Chinar, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road on 15th...

Penguin US bolsters children's unit

Penguin Group (USA) has hired two prominent publishing executives to bolster its children's...

Protestors greet Turin book fair

Protesters in the thousands, including Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel laureate in literature, massed on...

French court rules on free deliveries

The French Booksellers Association (Syndicat de la Librairie Française, SLF) has lost part of a...

Larousse launches online encyclopedia

French publisher Larousse has introduced an online French-language encyclopedia inviting users to...

International Blogs

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GAYLE FELDMAN

Making content pay

More than 300 people - a record number - attended last week's BISG conference in New York on making information pay.

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Clare Alexander

Defence of the realm

All those who care about creative publishing must defend territorial rights. And UK digital...

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Gary Cummiskey

Coming up short

Publishers should be prepared to take more risk with short story collections.

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In Depth

Last updated 14.03.08

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Editis rises again to face future

French publisher Editis must feel like a phoenix: once part of the defunct Vivendi empire, under new parent the investment group Wendel, the publisher of Khaled Hosseni and Harlan Coben in France has risen again to the point where it is talked...

Siri Hustvedt: The tricks of the mind

Five years after her success with the novel What I Loved, American writer Siri Hustvedt has returned with a fresh tale of creative exploration and subtle psychology set among the intellectual élite of New York. The Sorrows of...

Found in translation . . .

Riccardo Cavallero greets me in a hotel lobby in Vitorio, Spain, looking relaxed and happy. Of course, the Random House Mondadori (RHM) c.e.o. has every reason to be cheerful. RHM imprint Plaza & Janés has just released Ken...