Why, in current year, is there still a gap of years between publishing and English translation?
>>252603491. the biggest market is america because most spending power2. americans don't read3. americans super don't read literary fiction4. americans SUPER super don't read contemporary literary fiction in translation 5. ergo no incentive to pay a translator, no incentive for a translator to spend years bringing something into english this winds up becoming an unintended but perversely pleasant dreck filter; if a work of contemporary world literary fiction makes it into english, it's almost certainly because some poor, beleaguered, yet wildly passionate translator or press out there caught wind of it and decided to usher it to us come what may, which means that we get the best shit the unintended consequence of THAT is that we get it several years (sometimes decades) after everybody else
>>25260349do the math. how many units do i have to sell at half price to bookstores to make some goddamn fucking money?
