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Surprisingly, translations of the books into Russian seem considerably better than into English (at least for the first three books I tried)

• thriftwy 4y ago
  There's a large tradition of having texts translated into Russian, whereas English speakers would very rarely read anything translated from another language.
  • debesyla 4y ago
    "Tradition" sounds a bit funny knowing that a lot of Russian book publishing was/is published without author permission. Russian publishing isn't well known for following copyright laws :V
    • thriftwy 4y ago
      I'm pretty sure that Russian (Soviet?) publishers observed whatever copyright laws there were at the time. It's just that international copyright law is a recent phenomenon. USA is also a very late signatory of international book copyright treaties AFAIK.