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October 15, 2008By Michael Cader

International News: Sony Goes to Germany; Bloomsbury Goes to Qatar; Amazon Supports Translation; and More

October 15, 2008By Michael Cader

Sony has confirmed that they will release their ebook Reader in Germany next Spring, working in partnership with bookseller Thalia for selling the devices and wholesaler Libri for selling and serving the ebook files. Libri is hoping to have “thousands” of titles available for the launch. Bloomsbury is partnering with the Qatar Foundation to create a new publisher house  for English and Arabic books in the Middle East. Called Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing and based in Doha, it will publishing general fiction and non-fiction for both adults and for children, but also educational books for schools, academic books for universities […]

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