Alex Estes profiled Archipelago Books for our 10th Anniversary in Publisher’s Perspectives:

Ten years in and it doesn’t look like Archipelago is slowing down. This past year Random House became their distributor, which will hopefully get them closer to what Schoolman calls “the next level.” She can see that it’s right there, and she knows Archipelago will reach it. It’s only a matter of time. But no matter what happens in the future, it is safe to say that the American reader is better off with Archipelago in the picture, large or small. Salman Rushdie said that “[i]t is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation,” but that he clings “obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained.” One can credit Archipelago Books, at even the most very basic level of giving readers the very opportunity of “getting lost” in the translation.

Read the full profile: “Archipelago Books: 10 Years, 100 Titles, 26 Languages“