Sorozatgyilkosságok Európa-szerte. Kiadói stratégiák vizsgálata hat európai krimiszerző terjesztésében
Serializing Murder across Europe (Editorial Strategies behind Six European Crime Writers)

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the different editorial strategies at work in the circulation of novels by six European crime fiction authors. The comparative study indicates changes in the contemporary power balance in the European publishing system. We point towards characteristics on the European book market for published and translated novels by non-English and non-American authors, as novels originally in English expectedly dominate the market. The permeability of translations does not seem to decrease with the growing size of a book market and its affiliation to a central language: according to the present research, France is an obvious exception to this supposed trend, since French is the only language considered in which we found translations of all the selected authors. Smaller markets (such as Hungary or Romania) are particularly interested in Western crime fiction, and thus neglect authors from proximate territories.

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