South Korea's Embrace of Multiculturalism Could Galvanize Publishing

South Korea's Embrace of Multiculturalism Could Galvanize Publishing Today, some 2.5% of South Korea's residents are foreign-born and demand is growing for English-language books and other foreign-language materials.

Ether for Authors: Is Today's Book Marketing All in the Algorithms? Porter Anderson takes in recent discussions about metadata and book marketing, a live, crowdsourced writing experiment, book recommendation culture, and more.

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From the Archives: Myanmar's Literati Shake Off Past, Look to Future New freedoms and the patronage of pro-Democracy politician Aung San Suu Kyi helped Myanmar host its first book festival, where once-banned books were openly on display.