YOU MAY ALREADY BE A WINNER!! And guess what? This competion is open to anyone, Korean or non-Korean! And you can win cards of $500, $100, and $10 dollars from Amazon! What do you have to do? Read one (that’s right, only “1”!) short work of Korean fiction, do a really brief video between 1 to 3…
Well.. this is rather horrible. The phrase “Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature” is rendered as: At least they got the first collection right:
I was hanging about in some of the tawdry local bookshops I do… and I saw two new (used) books that had been sold by some woman named Catherine Peck (obnoxiously, she wrote her name into the inner covers of books she the sold – really.. what are these inscribers afraid of? Do they think…
UPDATE: I received a very nice response from focloir in reply to my complaint with them and it has exactly turned me around on them. I am temporarily keeping part of my splenetic original post at the bottom here (mainly so people can laugh at how Korea’s tin-pot culture has become part of me), but…
Pretty sweet. The list is actually called, “Top 10 List of Ebooks of 2011 So Far on Amazon (Link has rotted),” so it’s for half a year, but it’s still nice to see more plaudits coming for the book. And the book is still doing amazingly well in ebook sales. Amazon lists “Mom” at 8,…
Amazon.com Inc. plans to create a publishing house, called AmazonCrossing, that will translate foreign books into English. Amazon will acquire the rights to foreign books and have them translated in-house. These books will be printed and sold through traditional channels; national and independent booksellers as well as third party wholesalers, but they will also be available through the Kindle e-bookstore, which opens up an entirely new market.