The Translations of Fiction into Romanian and Romanian Fiction (A Comparative Study Regarding the Period 2006–2010)
The Translations of Fiction into Romanian and Romanian Fiction (A Comparative Study Regarding the Period 2006–2010)

Summary/Abstract: Only a few days ago, Forbes magazine published a top of the most important publishing houses in Romania. The article that comments upon the top is written by Petre Barbu, himself a novelist, and Raluca Bara-Iacob (Barbu, Bara Iacob 2011).The top includes 46 publishing houses starting with the strongest one, Adevărul Publishing House and ending with Excelsior Art. The annual turnover of Adevărul Publishing House is of 40.002.000 euro in 2010 but the figures are valid for the entire holding, including the top selling Romanian newspaper. The next publishing house is Litera International with an annual turnover of about 10 million euro. The top ten Romanian publishing houses are, for 2010: Adevărul, Litera International, Polirom, Curtea Veche Publishing, Art Editorial Group, ERC Press, Humanitas SA, Paralela 45, Teora and RAO Publishing House. ( Ib.) I shall make a few comments regarding this matter. First, Adevărul publishing house started to publish collections of great classic writers of the world’s literature at low prices. The advertising campaign has been extremely strong, the publishing house underlining strongly that the books are bound in ecologic leather.

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