Posted March 15, 2012
SovietSharkey: Is there any more news on the official translation of these books
love the games and would love to see the books get translated (the fan translation is great but I personally prefer paper copies of books)
cjrgreen: No new news, and I doubt that translates to good news. love the games and would love to see the books get translated (the fan translation is great but I personally prefer paper copies of books)
The English-speaking press has a bad case of unwillingness to take risks, caused in no small part by gigacorporate ownership. (Gollancz is owned by the €8 billion (milliard) a year conglomerate Lagardère Group.)
Difficult translations of an author little-known in the English-speaking part of the world are the sort of propositions that the minions of publishers answerable to an enormous corporation are not going to want to stake their positions on :(
if so then that is a very sad