Friday, June 22, 2012

News from Publishing Perspectives:


Yale University Press is digitizing Stalin's immense personal archive, amounting to 400,000 pages, which includes much revealing and invaluable marginalia. 

Libraries take responsibility for preserving fragile documents and sometimes this means saving them from people who would rather see them destroyed. 
Jeet Thayil answers questions about his novel Narcopolis, courting controversy in India, his reception abroad, and challenging convention in fiction. 

Barcelona eBooks is pushing the boundaries of Spanish-language publishing and setting a new precedent by producing e-books in both Spanish and English. 

The Independent Publishers' Fair brings together 65 small, culturally significant publishing houses for a three-week-long event in Mexico City. 

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