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You can’t help but love France, when a book whose title is Sermon about the Fall of Rome tops Fifty Shades of Grey on the bestseller lists. It looks like France’s Prix Goncourt winners this year are battling it out to be at the top…
Exciting news: The Paris Lawyer made it to number 3 on the Nook mystery bestseller list over the weekend, then hovered at number 5 and this morning it is still in the top 10.
This happened during our Thanksgiving to…
Check out this article from Publishing Perspectives: Le Cash Cow? I do love the title. Although technically it should be “la” cash cow, since “vache” (cow in French) is feminine, and so is “espèces” (cash). And actually, the…
As you know, at Le French Book, we don’t think that ebooks and paper books should be enemies. They are just different ways to read… a book. But you have to admit that electronic distribution is hitting hard on the brick and mortar booksellers:…
In an article published on Forbes.com, blogger and author Suw Charman-Anderson points out the striking parallel between ebooks and paperbacks. Quoting another article from Teleread, she reminds us that when some of the first paperbacks were published in 1939 in the US, they were…
Last April, the Pew Internet & American Life Project published a very interesting survey called “The rise of e-reading.” As the title suggests, it shows how fast electronic reading is developing in the US, both in…
You don’t have to! By popular demand, we have done a soft launch of The Paris Lawyer, by Sylvie Granotier.
This means you can:
Disruption, revolution, better, worse, too expensive, too cheap. A lot of words get thrown around about ebooks, how they are selling, and even whether people who buy them actually read them. In France, the digital reading experience has not yet really caught on. You…
Every year, the daily Le Figaro puts out a list of France’s top ten bestselling authors. This year, all together the ten of them sold 8.561 million books sold. According to ActuaLitté, this list is compiled without taking ebook sales into account,…
During the holidays, in addition to driving across a better part of France, tasting some fine Burgundy wines, and reading a few French novels to find more books for our upcoming lists, I also read through Is That a Fish in Your Ear?…
Short stories
52 Serial Shorts
Thrillers
The Greenland Breach
The Bleiberg Project
