Used to be you’d send a book out into the world and very possibly never see or hear a trace of it again. Sure, you hoped it would eventually wind up in far-away places, somewhere across the ocean. For all you knew, maybe it did. But there was very little chance you’d ever see any evidence of that.
In these days of online miracle and wonder, however, you can track such things with ease. In addition to hearing from an overseas reader or two, I’ve run across “Losering” reviews written in Dutch and Swedish. It’s also in at least one library in Italy; and it recently got as high as No. 3 on amazon.uk’s listing of bluegrass books in England (um, bluegrass?…Really?…).
This I love most of all: “Losering” is even available in China, where it can be had on amazon.cn for the sum of “￥123” (which Mr. Mike Quinlan tells me is China’s Yuan currency, 123 of which come to $19.78). Check it out below. I was hoping that 作者 was my name in the “Simplified Han” dialect; but according to Google Translate, that just means “author.” Oh well.
ADDENDA: My pal Stacy informs me that “Losering” can also be found on amazon Japan, where the paperback version sells for 1,513 Yen (about $17). I’ve added the screengrab below.
Losering Books 
There is actually a light lace of bluegrass in the Whiskeytown sound, has a lot to do with Caitlin’s fiddle I suspect. I think it’s actually key to the sound, the more I think about it. So Losering very much belongs on the Bluegrass charts, only higher. Not to mention Pearls on a String in RA’s future, just stitting there waiting, pretty as peach..out there in the day.
It do make a certain amount of sense — especially the part about Caitlin’s fiddle. You ever read the No Depression profile I did on her way back in 2002? “While You Weren’t Looking” is still my favorite solo album to come out of Whiskeytown, I like it even better than “Heartbreaker.”
http://archives.nodepression.com/2002/03/dark-horse/