Thread: Why don't French books sell abroad?
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Old 12-10-2013, 01:43 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Freeshadow View Post
Having started to read in english I was simply overrun by the perception of how many good books never made it into translation FROM en. Taking this as a base line (keep in mind how widely known english is) the amount of books never translated INTO english (take your pick of source languages here) has to be an astronomic figure.
I've once read that German is the language with the highest number of books translated into. Maybe we are very open minded!
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