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Last updated 09.05.08

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Hachette prepares for Sony French launch

Hachette Livre is to acquire French digital book distributor Numilog. The move is designed to prepare Hachette Livre for the launch in France of the Sony digital e-book at the end of this...

PFD loses New York chief

Literary agency Peters, Fraser & Dunlop (PFD) has lost the head of its US office. Zoë...

Mexico votes for fixed prices

The Mexican Senate or upper house of parliament has voted by a massive majority to introduce fixed...

The folding bookshop

Australian bookshop owner Andrew Ball has dreamt up a new-style bookshop, a portable one that like a...

'Major' deal for US debut

In a "major" new deal, Bloomsbury US and UK have acquired world English rights in...

International Blogs

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Clare Alexander

Defence of the realm

All those who care about creative publishing must defend territorial rights. And UK digital royalty terms must remain attractive.

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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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BARBARA CASASSUS

A new European powerhouse?

The book publishing giant created by the merger of Spain's Planeta and France's Editis has...

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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...