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DavidW
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07 April 2011 at 11:14pm | IP Logged

I had a response from my contact in Iran. He can't see any problem with this, and that
the government would be unlikely to take any interest in the site unless the materials
deal with certain sensitive topics, defame Islam, and so on.
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iguanamon wrote:

In my opinion, there's a reason why we don't see a lot of bilingual books for sale. The market (language learners) is small and insignificant in comparison to the vast uni-lingual market. If this were a money making proposition we would be inundated with bilingual books by all the big publishing houses.

Let me disagree. Chinese University Press (HK) has been publishing a large number of bilingual books for years. See example here. They seem to be able to make money on this. Also, there are several other publishers in Continental China, who successfully sell bilingual books. As an English learning method it seems to be quite widely used in China.

In Russia Mr. Ilya Frank has also been publishing bilingual books for many languages, and seems to be doing good business. His books are sold outside Russia as well.

I do believe selling bilingual books can turn out to be good.
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12 April 2011 at 6:49pm | IP Logged

I can walk into bookstores and find bilingual books too. The Czech Republic has some nice ones, and so does Germany.

Bilingual books with audio is a more obscure niche, though not entirely unfilled - "Breaking into Japanese Literature" immediately springs to mind.

Old texts don't work well for German or Dutch; there have been too many spelling reforms. They're often fine for English, Russian, Italian, etc.

Circumventing copyright is probably a losing proposition. Use old texts, creative-commons licensed texts, work with publishers - but do something you can freely publish and promote. It'll keep your life simpler and happier in the long run, probably.

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