It’s always hard to get bestsellers lists from different countries. Today I find out that the French Books Magazine has a compilation of links of bestsellers lists from all over the word. Most of them (or at least the ones I checked) are published by newspapers and magazines, thus they are not official. Still it’s [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘livros’
3 March 2009
The English Pen Online World Atlas
Very nice initiative of the English Pen, The English Pen Online World Atlas. At the end there is more literature in English in this world than the American and the British ones and this is also a nice way to promote translations from English literature from other countries (especially from the Middle East). Unfortunatelly, a [...]
23 February 2009
An Archieve of Book Cover Designs and Designers
The Book Cover Archieve – An Archieve of Book Cover Designs and Designers for the purpose of appreciation and categorization.
Via Bibliotecários sem Fronteiras
3 February 2009
1000 novels everyone must read (in English, I guess)
A while ago the Guardian published a list of 1000 novels everyone must read. Eduardo de Freitas from theca libraria took the effort to make some analysis and find out that only 5 titles were written by Portuguese speaking authors (3 by Brazilians and 2 by Portuguese, none African). Morevover among the 123 titles in [...]
29 January 2009
Territorial Copyright
I tend to believe that the development of the new technologies of book’s printing and distribution will be very positive for authors and publishers of ‘peripheral’ languages and countries, specially for English-speaking countries that are not US and UK or any other publisher that publishes in English (either translations or original works, just because there [...]
26 January 2009
When translation is a further problem…
I’ve been talking now and then about the question of diversity of translations in the world today. Sometimes we need to take an step back and give some tought to our own langague. I’m sure the problem faced by the Spanish-speaking authors in Latin America discussed on the Hermano Cerdo (in Spanish, sorry) is not [...]
23 January 2009
Blogtailors
Uma outra descoberta bacana que fiz recentemente foi o Blogtailors. É um blog português sobre o mundo literário/editorial que também está sempre de olho no Brasil. Ele é escrito pelo pessoal da Booktailors, uma empresa de consultores editorais. É um jeito legal deles divulgarem a empresa deles, mas também prestam um serviço bacana
à ‘comunidade’ em [...]
22 January 2009
More books about books… or sort of.
Copyright laws seem something that have always been around us. Actually they’re not that old and are little more than hundred years old in the shape we know it (or something similar). Copyright discussions are in today because of the Internet, but we forget that they started to exist mostly because of the printing world, [...]
