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Registrations open for 33rd International Publishers Congress
Apologies to those who expect more from TNPS than a press release. Recovery is proving slower than...
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Pakistan’s paper shortage halts text book printing as global paper crisis bites
For countries like Pakistan, that have for so long eschewed any meaningful shift to digital...
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Kindle Unlimited’s pot pay-out hits new high of $43.3 million
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The Shanghai Children’s Book Fair postponement has a stark message for western publishers
Industry-media coverage of the Shanghai postponement has been brief and news-focussed as always,...
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Apologies for the Disappearing Act Redux
Returning to my desk this weekend the telephone-number backlog of emails is exceededed only by the...
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Amazon Sweden now offers POD via KDP, but 2022 will mark eight years since Amazon last launched a Kindle store
Swedes hoping for an easy ride into the Kindle store will be disappointed. There is no Kindle...
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Kobo’s move on the Arab markets could be the game-changer Amazon walked away from. But first Kobo will need to seriously up its own game
What we need to see next is Tamblyn at the Sharjah International Book Fair alongside Bodour al...
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Apologies for the disappearing act
Regular readers here at TNPS know it’s not uncommon for TNPS to miss a day or two due to...
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One tenth of Sweden’s population now has an audiobook subscription
In the mature English-language markets, where unlimited subscription is still a dirty word,...
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US print sales fall another 6% as the Q1 declines continue into Q2
Perhaps the man with most cause for concern will be James Daunt, the Atlantic-straddling CEO of...
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Facebook abandons podcasts, but no the podcasting sky is not falling
One might think, in a world of real doom and gloom, death and destruction, that there was no need...
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Arab book market focus: Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival 2022 (UAE)
The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival is one of the biggest children’s literary events in the...
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Will Snap CEO’s dismissal of the Metaverse come back to haunt him?
But isn’t “pretty ambiguous and hypothetical” exactly how we would have...
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Google Play Books Expands AI Audiobook Narration – maybe
No, AI narration will not put competent real-life narrators out of jobs any time soon, if ever....
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Registration opens for hybrid Nigeria International Book Fair
Nigeria and other national publishing events organisers across sub-Saharan Africa would do well to...
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Japan’s biggest audiobook service now offers a tandem unlimited and credit model to appeal to more consumers
At the consumer level the unlimited consumption model for a fixed monthly fee has enormous appeal,...
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Nextory’s 69% subscriber growth in Q1 may not be as impressive as at first appears
Nextory is said to be considering an IPO for the company, although in the light of recent...
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Reimagined Toy Fair New York postponed until 2023. Lessons for the publishing industry
The industry is in danger of sleepwalking into the next crises (plural, and likely many), some of...
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Botswana – Gaborone Book Festival dates announced
One of southern Africa’s biggest publishing events will be hybrid this year. The Gaborone...
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Romania’s streaming start-up Voxa targets EUR 1 million and international expansion in 2022
If Voxa can expand its markets following its current strategies of pursuing both public and...
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