December 2010
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How to display ND Pearls (and other small books)
We occasionally receive emails from bookstores scratching their heads on how to display the Pearls, our line of small pocket-sized books. We hope the following visual guide helps.
A good way to display the Peals, or any publisher’s line of small books, is face out on a table, or on a rack. Having them featured together also helps. At Spoonbill & Sugartown in Williamsburg, Brooklyn...
Omon Ra old and new
We recently started a practice of rejacketing some of our veteran titles. Victor Pelevin’s Omon Ra is the most recent title to get a jacket makeover. This is the former jacket, designed by Semadar Megged:
And the new jacket (originally designed for the FSG cloth edition) by designer Paul Sahre:
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Literary Ambassadors
The New York Times has an interesting article up today, “Translation as Literary Ambassador,” about American publishing’s battle with the “three percent problem,” the percent of how much translated books make up the American book market. The article references Dalkey Archive, Open Letter, Words Without Borders, Three Percent Blog, and the recent...