Lovely essay, and you have wonderful ideas about this. For translated books, check out Archipelago Books. It's a small press in NYC that is dedicated to bringing foreign literature to the U.S. The publisher (full disclosure, she's a friend of mine) got tired of being told there's no market for foreign translations because Americans won't read them. Which of course meant none were available for Americans to read. She pretty much single-handedly decided to change this. Anyway, it might be right up your alley: http://www.archipelagobooks.org/