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Contemporary book trading between West and East, information or transmission? The Case of Eastern Literature in French Publishers Foreign Series

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Contemporary book trading between West and East, information or transmission? The case of Eastern literature in French publishers catalogues. SHARP Conference 2006. The Hague Publishing foreign books-fiction and non fiction-in France has always been a self-assigned mission for literary publishers and although the general book market is decidedly not as wide as it is in the States or even in other European countries, foreign books have also become profitable products for French commercial publishers investing in bestselling translations from English mystery masters, American Science Fiction or Japanese Mangas. The difference in targets, values, goals and results between these two lines of trading ideas through Foreign books publishing is however striking and impossible to reconcile-the literary publishers trying to retain financial stability in order to discover, promote and transfer to selected readers new talents or unknown authors for the long term while commercial publishers seek immediate and significant profit and try to seduce a broad market of readers that is sociologically and culturally scattered and less demanding. The first ones are East oriented, the others essentially west oriented and focusing on English or Spanish literature. It is however not the purpose of this paper to set a comparison and we rather intend to focus, within the broad area of Foreign books published in France, on the narrow angle of Eastern literature published by literary publishers, to state facts, social, editorial or at large intellectual grounds or reasons that make it possible. While it will not be possible to consider the details of the whole
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Brigitte Ouvry-Vial. Contemporary book trading between West and East, information or transmission? The Case of Eastern Literature in French Publishers Foreign Series. Reading Books - Trading Ideas SHARP 2006 Conference, Jul 2006, The Hague/Leiden, Netherlands. ⟨hal-02111627⟩
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