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Book Deals: Week of October 26, 2015
Pushcart Prize–winner Stephanie Powell Watts takes her debut to Ecco, Diana Palmer gets seven figures from Harlequin, Juliet Nicolson sells a nonfiction title to FSG, and more in this week's notable book deals.
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International Bestseller List: 'The Girl in the Spider's Web' Remains Hot Across Europe
David Lagercrantz's addition to Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy is a bestseller in France, Sweden, and Italy.
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PEN, U.S. Publishers Respond to Chinese Censorship
PEN American Center is teaming with 12 U.S. publishers to monitor and address incidents of censorship in the translations of U.S. titles in the Chinese book market.
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'Toronto Star' Doubles Its Books Pages
The newspaper will increase its weekly print books coverage from two to four pages and run extended bestseller lists.
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'Fugitive Pieces' Author Anne Michaels Named Toronto’s Poet Laureate
The appointed three-year position, which includes an annual C$10,000 honorarium, means that Michaels will be the city’s advocate for poetry and language.
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Behind The Swedish Thriller, 'The Ice Beneath Her'
The latest hot thriller property to emerge from the Scandinavian crime fiction scene follows an unreliable narrator's attempt to solve a grisly murder.
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Banned New Zealand YA Novel Acquired By U.S. Publisher
Ted Dawe's 'Into the River,' which earlier this month became the first book in more than two decades to be banned in New Zealand, has been acquired by Jason Pinter at Polis Books.
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'Girl in the Spider's Web' Dominated International Bestseller Lists in August
David Lagercrantz's continuation of the late Stieg Larsson's Millennium series topped the charts in France, Germany, and Sweden.
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Behind the Swedish Thriller, 'Lycke'
In Sweden, a thriller finds an audience with women readers "probably a bit tired of reading about middle-aged policemen."
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Country Spotlight: Malaysia: A Mixed Bag for Bookselling
For the Malaysian bookselling and publishing communities, the first quarter of the year leading up to the 6% goods and services tax (GST) implementation on April 1 was tumultuous and disruptive.
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Country Spotlight: Malaysia: Checking Out the Top Shows and Festivals
With publishers large and small putting on road shows, holding minifairs, and participating in major book events, and with chain bookstores and remainder sellers holding their own shows, there are plenty of opportunities for book lovers and content creators to congregate across Malaysia.
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Country Spotlight: Malaysia: Companies
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Country Spotlight: Malaysia
Malaysia—a multicultural nation of 30 million people made up of Malay, English, Chinese, and Tamil speakers—is a relatively small and divided book market.
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Country Spotlight: Malaysia: Heating Up the Rights Market
Rights traffic, as expected in a small book market like Malaysia, typically flows one way, with English-to-Malay translations mostly found in the education and reference segments.
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Country Spotlight: Malaysia: Digital Segment on the Move
The Malaysian e-book industry is still in the low single digit in terms of market share and international e-book retailers have yet to show signs of setting up shop here.
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Country Spotlight: Malaysia: A Flourishing Alternative Scene
The growing popularity of alternative publishers such as DuBook, Thukul Cetak and Lejen Press is a welcome change (“an absolute delight”) to Raman Krishnan of Silverfish Books, a company many regarded as the catalyst in the independent bookselling and publishing scene in Malaysia.
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Canadian Publishing 2015: Hot Fall Adult Titles From Canadian Houses
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Canadian Publishing 2015: New Canadian M.F.A. Enhanced by Pace Partnership
The University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has a fledgling creative writing M.F.A., launched in summer 2013, that focuses exclusively on nonfiction and is the only program of its kind in Canada
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Canadian Publishing 2015: Book Marketing in 2015
With competition for bookstore shelf space as fierce as ever and the Inspire Book Fair gone for good, publishers are looking for new ways to reach potential readers.
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Canadian Publishing 2015: Two New English-Language Imprints Coming Out of Montreal
Two Montreal companies—English-language publisher Baraka Books and French-language publisher Éditions de l’Homme—are launching new imprints to showcase Quebec’s writers in translation for the English-language market.
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