Comments on: Three Percent #144: The Perfect Publishing Award /College/translation/threepercent/2018/09/19/three-percent-144-the-perfect-publishing-award/ a resource for international literature at the URochester Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:01:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chad Post /College/translation/threepercent/2018/09/19/three-percent-144-the-perfect-publishing-award/#comment-812 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:01:32 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=405632#comment-812 In reply to Melissa Techman.

I went through the past three years of translated books and assigned genres to all of them (speculative, horror, romance, crime, YA, etc.) in order to write a forthcoming article for Publishers Weekly. It was interesting! YA is WAAAAYYYY underrepresented. But I’m hesitant to add genre to the database as a whole, since the categorization is often pretty slippery. I used publisher-assigned BISAC codes to put the books into the appropriate barrels, but frequently there were multiple genres on any given book (crime + historical, or historical + romance) and not every publisher is as good at labeling their books as others. (And some are just a stretch to try and appeal to a different audience.) It’s not hard to do the research to get a snapshot of what’s being published, but I’m not sure if it’s standardized enough to add it to the database. Does that make sense?

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By: Melissa Techman /College/translation/threepercent/2018/09/19/three-percent-144-the-perfect-publishing-award/#comment-802 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 14:50:31 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=405632#comment-802 Hi, I’m looking forward to listening 🙂 I also would love to know if you have any suggestions for people/sites/platforms/vendors for books in translation for YA audiences. AND could we remix your spreadsheets if we get inspired to add a field for genre and a field for YA? Never hurts to ask! Thanks!

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By: Missed Opportunities (Here’s the NBA Translation Post I Promised) « Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent/2018/09/19/three-percent-144-the-perfect-publishing-award/#comment-782 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:00:51 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=405632#comment-782 […] last week that came from a sense of disappointment and anger. A lot of those ideas can be heard on this recent podcast. I’ll recap them below for the non-podcast reading public (is there such a thing?), but I […]

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