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For Publishers, The Long Term Is the Only Race Worth Winning Chad Post's keynote to the IPA Congress in Cape Town addresses the numerous paradoxes in contemporary publishing and prescribes taking a new, engaged attitude. Read more »

Will the Digital Age Be a Golden Age for Small Publishers? The opportunity cultivate an audience has eluded most small publishers until now. But digital flattens the terrain and small publishers can finally compete.  Read more »

3 Reasons HarperCollins 360 Took So Long to Start Money, marketing and management all likely prevented HarperCollins from offering all its English titles to global readers at once, but that's finally changed.  Read more »

Iranian Bestseller Built by Social Media, Sold Through Synergy How Zahra’s Paradise, a graphic novel about a protester who goes missing during the Iranian demonstrations of 2009, turned into a surprise global bestseller.  Read more »

PublishNews Brazil: Brazilians Embrace Paperbacks, Free UPress E-books This week's issue of PublishNews Brazil looks at the emerging Brazilian paperback market, and two plans to offer more free e-books to university students. Read more »