small independent publishers are struggling to survive this ducklings publishing house specializing in politics and contemporary history has joined forces with a larger alfalfa luck for him declining readership is a fact. this is an invitation control development that can't be stopped entirely you have to be more original and you know you'll sell fewer copies but we'll hang on to our readers we just have to look after them better than in. the. senate the haps it's best to start when the young interest in german books for children and young adults is growing not just in germany but also brought especially in china. overall the book face becoming more international there are more stands from southeast asia and africa is making its presence felt yet african literature is still not well known in. there's new vibrancy and i think that the presence here