Foreign Kindle editions

ItalianOne of the interesting things about ebooks is that they break down one of the two barriers to international distribution – an ebook generally costs nothing to send across national lines. (The other limitation is contractual; book contracts often limit the territories in which a book can be sold.) We’re seeing that with Peanuts e-books. So you can get such books as the Italian strip collection Fortunatamente studio un pezzo per cui posso suonare intorno al suo naso! or the German edition of the fifth volume of the Peanuts comic book stories (hey, that’s got some of my work in it!) There used to be US editions of Peanuts books in foreign languages mainly for students who were learning the language; I suppose this could meet that same goal.

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Gilded Age Peanuts

There are many products generated as Peanuts “collectibles”. There have even been some special editions of books that would qualify, such as those leatherbound Easton Press editions. Still, I think the upcoming board book edition of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is pushing the line a bit. The publisher …

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Crafty Peanuts books

A couple of craft-ish new books popped up on the horizon. Coming next June is a revised and expanded edition of Peanuts Cross-Stitch; where the old one had 16 patterns, this one comes with a whopping 24. At least, I assume that’s whopping. I don’t really spend time with craft books. …

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The Essential Peanuts preview

The magazine People ran a preview of The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, the upcoming Peanuts retrospective written by my bud Mark Evanier. I’ll let you head there for the content, but I am going to talk on one part of the preview pointed to me by AAUGH Blog …