Netflix starts 2021 with 204 million subscribers. Publishers look the other way
.. .While many publishers are using their muscle to keep subscription at bay, consumers are...
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Naver’s $600 million buy-out of Wattpad should be a wake-up call for western publishers who still don’t “get” online reading
Underestimate the significance of this deal at your peril. This is another seismic shift that will...
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Draft2Digital drops a distribution outlet as 24Symbols admits to “cash stability issues”, but don’t write off 24Symbols just yet
“We do indeed have some cash stability issues, and for this reason Draft2Digital decided to remove...
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Netflix starts 2021 with 204 million subscribers. Publishers look the other way
.. .While many publishers are using their muscle to keep subscription at bay, consumers are...
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Bangladesh Amar Ekushey Boi Mela now set for late February-early March
Ramadan is due to start mid-April, and after that the rains will be underway… But at the same time...
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Big Bad Wolf to debut in Sharjah, UAE, in partnership with SBA
Big Bad Wolf is no stranger to the United Arab Emirates, but its previous in-person visits were to...
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Sweden’s Nextory confirms Norway launch for April/May
Three subscription services competing in a market smaller than London? But perhaps we are looking...
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US publisher Rowman & Littlefield aims for international digital growth
Put simply digital opens up markets where a traditional print-focussed strategy, with all the...
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India: 39th Agartala Book Fair to be held in Tripura in February as Kolkata Int. Book Fair delayed until June
A June Kolkata fair pre-supposes the pandemic will be under a semblance of control by then, but as...
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Another nail in Screen Fatigue’s coffin as OverDrive clocks 430 million digital downloads in 2020
Print of course remains king, although bricks & mortar booksellers face existential challenges...
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Sun rises in the east. Night follows day. Storytel beats forecasts
Storytel’s bigger challenges are that entry into most English-language markets remains unlikely so...
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“Non-essential” UK bookstore retail faces an existential challenge as 2021 lockdown bites
Many publishers will be watching their retail accounts closely this lockdown and wondering at what...
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Is a $500 million Wattpad sale imminent?
While Wattpad isn’t currently run as a commercial enterprise the potential, and the global...
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TNPS Advisory – ACE submarine internet cable fault again
It’s an inauspicious start to the New Year. The 17,000 km ACE submarine internet cable that...
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Morocco’s Casablanca Int. Book Fair postponed as Covid-19 tears up the 2021 publishing calendar
Last year the Casablanca International Book Fair attracted over a half million visitors. This year...
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Kubini – Swahili for “imaginary creations” – will be a 9-month-long African comics exhibition in d’Angoulême, France, in 2021
The French connection here should surprise no-one familiar with the book market in France, where...
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Sweden’s Storytel to introduce global flexible holidays for employees. Western publishers currently in Christmas limbo might want to take notes
This is the 2020s, the industry is global, and our sacred western holiday is just another working...
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Big Bad Wolf Myanmar starts its online mega-sale of English-language books. Publishers look the other way
For both domestic and international publishers the event is a watershed moment, adding Myanmar to...
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São Paulo Bienial attracts 1.3 million in its first online incarnation. One more digital genie that won’t be going back in the bottle
“This was an unprecedented event. For the first time, we brought together people from all over...
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India’s Kolkata International Book Fair now most likely for June, but the only guarantee seems to be there won’t be an online event in lieu
In a country of 560 million internet users that ought to come as a surprise, but sadly does not....
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Amar Ekushey Boi Mela pivots to digital and back to in-person in the space of a week amid publisher objections. Bangladeshi consumers pay the price
To state that “A virtual book fair can never be an alternative to our historic tradition” is to...
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