Complex sentence: His weekly newspaper and web column is sporadically attacked as provocative and misinformed, but Lebrecht's predictions on the decline of the classical music industry have been generally vindicated and several of his books are international bestsellers, translated into 16 languages.
Split into simpler sentences: His weekly newspaper and web column is sporadically attacked as provocative and misinformed, but Lebrecht's predictions on the decline of the classical music industry have been generally vindicated. Several of his books are international bestsellers, and have been translated into 16 languages.