The state of affairs in Post-Communist Central and Eastern European book industries

Publishing Research Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 43-53

  Kovaĉ, Miha ^a  

^a Filozofiska Fakulteta Oddelek Za Bibliotekarstvo   (Slovenia)

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EID: 10844273724     PISSN: 10538801     EISSN: 19364792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12109-002-0012-0     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. "Fast Forward to 2010," Bookseller, 1O March 2000.
2. "Competitiveness of the European Union Publishing Industries" (Brussels: European Commission, Enterprise Directorate-General, 2000) p. 17.
3. More information on Eastern European publishing can be found at http://www.osi.hu/cpd/profiles.html
4. See International Publishers Association website http://www.ipa-uie.org/.
5. Competitiveness, 139.
6. Paul Richardson, "Publishing Market Survey: Hungary," Report prepared by Professor Paul Richardson for the British Council (London: British Council, 2000) 5.
7. See also Hungarian Publisher's and Booksellers Association website http://www.adatnet.hu/mkke/
8. This information is available at http://www.publishers.org.uk/Public.nsf/ HTML/homepage-f.html
9. Rapid Reports, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, 3 August 2000, no.183, p. 2.
10. See Richardson, "Publishing Marketing Survey: Hungary," 15.
11. Conversation with Mladinska knjiga staff member, May 2001. Mladinska knjiga is the biggest publisher of literary bestsellers in Slovenia.
12. Available at http://www.izum.si/cobiss/
13. The list of most borrowed authors in Slovene public libraries is available at http://home.izum.si/cobiss/topgradivo/
14. An interesting overview on the condition of book translation can be found in Lawrence Venuti's, The Translator's Invisibility, Routledge 1995, pp.l-43. Inspiring and challenging case study on transferring fiction from one culture to another was written by Eva Hemmungs Wirten, Global Infatuation, Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts, Uppsala University Press 1998
15. Available at http://www.unesco.org/culture/xtrans/html-eng/index6.shtml
16. Venuti, p. 17.
17. Austrian bestseller list is available at http://www.buecher.at/
18. French bestseller lists are available at http://livres.lexpress.fr/ palmares/
19. Due to the failures of distribution systems, there is no exact data on book sales in Russia. The only reliable information about the popularity of the authors is print runs of their books. See Lenskij, Boris: Rossijskoe knigoizdanie v XXI veke: god pervyj. Knižnaoe obozrenie, 2002, No. 10/11, sir. 12-13.
20. Selections of this article were originally published with permission under the title of "Publishing in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe" in the January issue, 2002, Publishing History, Chadwyck-Heaty Ltd., Barnwell Road, Cambridge CB5 8SW, United Kingdom