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Maria Jesus Aguilo, a native of Spain, moved to California in 1993 after graduating from the University of Barcelona. In 1996 she joined Berrett-Koehler Publishers, where she is in charge of its Subsidiary Rights program. She attends several international book fairs a year, including Frankfurt,...
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
In 2017 we are celebrating the 25 th anniversary of our founding. From the very beginning, Berrett-Koehler books have been widely translated to many different languages and wonderfully received all over the world. Over the years, we have signed over two thousand foreign translation rights deals....
January 11, 2018
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
In 2017 we are celebrating the 25 th anniversary of our founding. From the very beginning, Berrett-Koehler books have been widely translated to many different languages and wonderfully received all over the world. Over the years, we have signed over two thousand foreign translation rights deals....
September 18, 2017
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
In 2017 we are celebrating the 25 th anniversary of our founding. From the very beginning, Berrett-Koehler books have been widely translated to many different languages and wonderfully received all over the world. Over the years, we have signed over two thousand foreign translation rights deals....
August 9, 2017
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
Celebrating our International Partners on our 25th Anniversary: Agência Riff (Brazil)
In 2017 we are celebrating the 25 th anniversary of our founding. From the very beginning, Berrett-Koehler books have been widely translated to many different languages and wonderfully received all over the world. Over the years, we have signed over two thousand foreign translation rights deals....
July 17, 2017
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
Celebrating our International Partners on our 25th Anniversary: JLM Agency (Greece)
In 2017 we are celebrating the 25 th anniversary of our founding. From the very beginning, Berrett-Koehler books have been widely translated to many different languages and wonderfully received all over the world. Over the years, we have signed over two thousand foreign translation rights deals....
June 22, 2017
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
Celebrating our International Partners on our 25th Anniversary: Akcali Copyright Agency (Turkey)
In 2017 we are celebrating the 25 th anniversary of our founding. From the very beginning, Berrett-Koehler books have been widely translated to many different languages and wonderfully received all over the world. Over the years, we have signed over two thousand foreign translation rights deals....
May 26, 2017
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
Celebrating our International Partners on our 25th Anniversary: Graal Literary Agency, Poland
In 2017 we are celebrating the 25 th anniversary of our founding. From the very beginning, Berrett-Koehler books have been widely translated to many different languages and wonderfully received all over the world. Over the years, we have signed over two thousand foreign translation rights deals....
May 3, 2017
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
In 2017 we are celebrating the 25 th anniversary of our founding. From the very beginning, Berrett-Koehler books have been widely translated to many different languages and wonderfully received all over the world. Over the years, we have signed over two thousand foreign translation rights deals....
March 23, 2017
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
In 2017 we are celebrating the 25 th anniversary of our founding. From the very beginning, Berrett-Koehler books have been widely translated to many different languages and wonderfully received all over the world. Over the years, we have signed over two thousand foreign translation rights deals....
February 15, 2017
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
Celebrating our International Partners on our 25th Anniversary: Eric Yang Agency (EYA), Korea
In 2017 we are celebrating the 25 th anniversary of our founding. From the very beginning, Berrett-Koehler books have been widely translated to many different languages and wonderfully received all over the world. Over the years, we have signed over two thousand foreign translation rights deal...
January 16, 2017
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
Celebrating our International Partners on our 25th Anniversary: Tuttle Mori Agency, Japan
In 2017 we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of our founding. From the very beginning, Berrett-Koehler books have been widely translated to many different languages and wonderfully received all over the world. Over the years, we have signed over two thousand foreign translation rights deals. W...
January 3, 2017
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
BK Rights in September 2016: Not even the Frankfurt Book Fair preparations slowed us down!
Here is a list of Berrett-Koehler Publishers September 2016 Rights Sales. You'd think that things would have slowed down when everybody is so busy preparing for the Frankfurt Book Fair, but we had yet another excellent month, with again tons of deep backlist titles making a comeback! Congratulati...
October 4, 2016
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
One of our job's favorite parts is to receive the samples of the foreign editions that we have licensed. Sometimes it's easy to tell because the cover contains similar elements, or the author names remain unchanged. But when the foreign publisher decide to go on a totally different direction and ...
September 6, 2016
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
BK Rights in July 2016: Our Classic Bestsellers continue to shine brightly!
We are always delighted to note that our classic bestselling titles continue to generate subsidiary rights revenues for our authors, many many years after their original publication. Our strategy of publishing updated editions of those books that are doing well in the marketplace, gives us the op...
August 1, 2016
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
BK Rights in June 2016: fewer deals but exciting ones!
We were so thrilled this month to receive the INDIEFAB 2015 Publisher of the Year Award, along with Gold Book Awards in two categories: for The Sisters are Alright by Tamara Winfrey-Harries in Women's Studies, and Got Your Attention? by Sam Horm in Career Development. For both of these titles we ...
July 1, 2016
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
Rights at Berrett-Koehler: May 2016, another stellar month (featuring Devora Zack!)
May 2016 was another great month for the rights department, and Devora Zack had a lot to do with it. Her books Networking for People Who Hate Networking, Managing for People Who Hate Managing and Singletasking have brought 45 licensing to deals to BK, and in May we added 4 languages to the list f...
June 1, 2016
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
Rights at Berrett-Koehler: April 2016, another busy month!
April 2016 was yet another busy month for the Rights Department at Berrett-Koehler Publishers. The whole department traveled to London for the London Book Fair which took place from April 12th to April 14th. We were glad to see all the old familiar faces plus some new ones, and got to present our...
May 2, 2016
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
March 2016: top month in Foreign Translation sales!
March 2016 was an excellent month for the rights department. We closed a total of 22 deals, and most remarkably, they were mostly titles from our backlist, and for some of our classic titles it's their second or third deal over the years. Also of note is the first foreign language sale for our pe...
March 29, 2016
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Najib Touaibia commented on Maria Jesus Aguilo's wall:
Hello. My name is Najib Touaibia.I'm working at an Algerian publishing house called Elwaai, and we are intersted in Arabic rights for "Confessions of an economic Hit Man", by John Perkins. I would like to discuss the details with you. Here is my email : trans.elwaie@gmail.com. Thank you very m... ...Read more
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
What Book Rights Do We Sell Besides Foreign Rights? Electronic Rights: These are not to be confused with the distribution of a book in electronic format (e-book). We talk about electronic rights when we license a work to another party to deliver in electronic format. We only work with a handful ...
March 5, 2014
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
How does selling foreign rights work? At Berrett-Koehler we have a very active foreign translations operation. Our books are routinely translated into several languages, and, unless the subject area of the book is of little interest to foreign publishers, we can guarantee that a book will be tra...
March 5, 2014
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Maria Jesus Aguilo posted a blog post
"What Obscure Languages Have BK Books Been Translated Into?"
"It has been exciting over the years to watch the list of foreign languages into which BK books have been translated grow. To date our books have been translated into 42 different languages. The most common languages that BK books are translated into: Chinese, Spanish, Korean and Portuguese...
January 2, 2014
