BookExpo 2019: Finding an Audience for Books in Translation 🔗 📚 🌍

The idea of the “3% Problem”—fewer than 3% of all the titles published in the U.S. in a given year were originally written in a language other than English—has shaped this discussion in a number of ways. A frequent starting point is that it’s bad for our culture to be so cut off from the rest of the world.