Conditions of Access

Bestselling author Agatha Christie’s crime and mystery novels have been translated into over 100 languages. E.L. James’s erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey has been translated into 52 languages. Australian author Richard Flanagan’s Booker award-winning Narrow Road to the Deep North has been published in 42 territories. Why do some novels ‘travel’—as the bookindustry describes the global trade in publishing rights—better than others? Conditions of Access is a data-driven, conceptually and methodol