News from Bergli Books
Sue Style's
Cheese - slices of Swiss culture is
available and catching the attention of many cheese lovers.
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Monica Vischer Richter has joined Bergli Books as a partner and looks forward
to using all her skills and experience from many years of work in the English
book business in Switzerland and in publishing.
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Bergli has its first ebook (Beyond Chocolate - understanding Swiss culture)
ready to go on sale but first we have to bury ourselves in piles of documents
about protecting digital rights, distribution agreements, enhanced e-content,
applications and widgets, client channels, encryption and hash algorithms, not
to mention the monetization.
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Diccon Bewes, author of Swiss
Watching, is working on his new book Swisscellany
to be published by Bergli in spring 2012. To keep up with this travel writer
and connoiseur of oddball facts about Switzerland visit his blog.
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Margaret Oertig has completed some of the major research for her new book
on the Swiss school system. Isn't Going Local
a great title?! We're looking forward to starting our part of the work
on it. Her following anecdote in the book under the topic of children learning
new cultural aspects keeps us chuckling to ourselves:
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"My daughter Fiona tells the story of how, when she was
three years old, she banged her knee on a chair while she was playing
with Laura, a neighbour's child, who was also three. To her surprise,
Ida offered her four options to 'make it better'. "I can blow
on it, kiss it, stroke it, or sing Heile, heile Segen."
Fiona found the offer a bit strange but opted for all four anyway.
Laura was Austrian, and had lived in the USA till she was two.
Then she moved to Switzerland. She had already worked out that people
had many different preferences when it came to being comforted."
Heile, heile Segen, morgen gibt's Regen, übermorgen Schnee,
und jetzt tut's nie mehr Weh.
Heal, heal, blessing, tomorrow it will rain, the next day it
will snow, and now it doesn't hurt any more.
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If you miss the bookshop too, then please call and sing Heile, heile Segen......
Thanks!
Dianne