Booksellers across South Florida are taking advantage of America’s increasing interest in foreign languages.
A major article in Monday’s Miami Herald focuses on how Florida’s bookstores are reaping major profits from the sales of books translated to and from foreign languages — especially Spanish. In “Expanding the world of books with translations,” journalist Monica Hatcher explains how the demand for translated literature in the USA surged with the release of the Spanish version of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.
“While successful Spanish-language titles in the United States typically sell between 15,000 and 20,000 books, more than 300,000 copies of El Código Da Vinci were scooped off bookstore shelves across the land, ushering in what some described as a new era for Spanish-language books in America,” writes Hatcher.
Since that time, U.S. publishing houses have started competing head to head with the foreign-based publishers that previously dominated the translation distribution market.
According to the in-depth article, the next big trend is likely to be Spanish books translated for English-speaking American readers.
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