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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Crazy Germans...
« on: December 23, 2005, 05:15:29 PM »
Well, the recent Heyne trade paperbacks have been very successfull and several have made it onto the mainstream bestseller list. Stan Nicholls trilogy about Orcs for example was a huge bestseller over here. In trade paperback.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Crazy Germans...
« on: December 23, 2005, 03:52:19 AM »
Heyne (rather than Heine) is a good publisher. They do nice trade paperbacks for their most prestigious writers. Though no hardcovers.

I would say that between 90 and 95 % of all fantasy and science fiction published in Germany comes from foreign markets. Most of these from the US and UK. A small percentage from eastern Eurpean countries (Stanislaw Lem, Strugatzki brothers).

Olaf

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Crazy Germans...
« on: December 21, 2005, 05:27:15 AM »
Hi Brandon,
I was wondering which German publisher bought the rights to Elantris?

Something to keep in mind about the German market. About 90% of all books published by the sf/f imprints are mass-market originals. Some publishers do trade paperbacks of the titles they expect to sell well and even fewer do hardcover editions of their most successful writers. Even Robert Jordan and Raymond Feist are released in mass-market paperbacks, Tad Williams, however, is released in hardcover and a major mainstream bestseller in Germany.

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