Up North... Way North

The Iceland Review has published a summary of the state of publishing in Iceland. It seems the little country of only 300,000 souls managed to publish an astonishing 800 books last year. What's more, Icelandic publishers and bookstores manage to sell those books at quite decent rates: 8,000 to 12,000 copies constitute a bestseller. Most small publishers in the US would be very happy to see numbers like that, too.--David E