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Children's Books in China 2017: A Brief Look at Some of China’s Biggest Children’s Publishers
Beijing-based Bookdao has identified 10 of the largest children’s book publishers in China.
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Children's Books in China 2017: Juvenile & Children Reading Experience Wonderland: A New Business Model
Located in Beijing’s central business district, the two-story Juvenile & Children Reading Experience Wonderland is a full-fledged subsidiary of China Children’s Press & Publication Group.
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Children's Books in China 2017: An Overview of the Children’s Book Market in China
PW spoke with Chinese publishers about some of the social and economic factors contributing the country's rapidly growing children's book industry.
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Children's Books in China 2017: Children’s Fun Publishing Company
Children’s Fun Publishing is a joint venture between Egmont Group and Posts & Telecommunications Press, so the wealth of foreign works in its 6,000-title catalogue is not surprising.
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Behind the Chinese Bestseller, 'The Story of Tencent'
The nonfiction bestseller, which came out last month in China and currently has over 500,000 copies in print, charts the rise of the country's biggest Internet company, app maker Tencent.
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Calendar Girl Strikes in France
Jumping to the top of Germany’s fiction list at the end of January was Swiss novelist Martin Suter’s Elephant, about a mysterious glow-in-the-dark pink elephant, the product of a genetic experiment, and the humans who want to exploit its powers of enchantment.
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Taiwan’s Indie Booksellers and Publishers Join Forces to Tackle Challenges
Book sales have plummeted in Taiwan in recent years, as have the number of bookstores in the island nation home to 23.5 million people.
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Behind the French Bestseller, 'The Office of Gardens and Ponds'
A French novel set in Japan over 1,000 years ago has been a bestseller in France since its January publication.
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Canadian Trade Groups Merge
Canadian Publishers' Council, which represents the interests of Canada's largest trade, education and professional publishers, has finalized its merger with the Canadian Education Research Council.
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Local Favorites Top in Italy, Spain, Sweden
Alberto Espinosa’s latest book, the self-help guide 'The Secrets I Never Told You,' remained on top of the nonfiction list in Spain in December.
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Behind the Flemish Bestseller, 'Will'
A novel set in WWII Antwerp centered on a conflicted policeman has been a Belgian bestseller since the summer, with translation deals in place in four other territories.
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Europeans Cheer Move Toward Flexible VAT for E-books
A proposal to allow European Union countries to offer reduced tax on e-books will be voted on in 2017 and has broad support of publishers and booksellers.
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Behind the Swedish Bestseller, 'Forget About Me'
Swedish media personality and popular podcaster Alex Schulman's latest novel has been on a bestseller since its October publication.
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Prize Winners On Top in France, Spain
Leïla Slimani’s thriller Chanson douce, which opens with the killing of two children by their caretaker, took the top spot on the fiction bestseller list in France at the end of November.
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Behind the Spanish Bestseller, 'Homeland'
A novel by a prize-winning author about two families torn apart by separatist politics has been a Spanish bestseller for three months.
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Politics Tops in France; ‘Cursed Child’ Big in Germany, Italy
The top of France’s nonfiction list took on a political bent in October, with an exposé of French president François Hollande penned by investigative journalists Fabrice Lhomme and Gérard Davet after five years of research.
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Behind the Dutch Bestseller, 'Judas'
A book being billed as a Dutch 'Narcos,' written by the sister of a notorious criminal, was an instant bestseller there.
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Canadian Authors, Artists Collaborate To Honor Chanie Wenjack
The First Nations boy died at age 12 in 1966 after running away from a school where he was being abused. Now two authors have published books about Wenjack in collaboration with musicians, artists, and filmmakers.
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Behind the German Bestseller, 'A Whole Life'
'A Whole Life' has been a top 10 German paperback bestseller for 42 weeks, and it has sold over 600,000 copies in Germany in all formats.
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