Bookwire: ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts do not cannibalise, but act in a “mutually reinforcing manner”
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New publishing house in Pakistan aims to deliver “world-class” but locally-affordable and Pak-orientated textbooks and fiction
World class books, local content is the them behind the launch of a new publishing house in...
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iHeartMedia to acquire Voxnest in seismic shake-up of the podcasting arena, delivering new opportunities for publishers
Despite more than 100 million Americans listening to a podcast every month, podcast creators and...
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Big Bad Wolf Malaysia will be online in November. 20 million books across 40,000 titles
By now the Big Bad Wolf team have learned lessons from previous online incarnations in Indonesia,...
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Bangladesh: 91st birthday of poet Shamsur Rahman
A key figure in Bengali literature from the latter half of the 20th century, Rahman was regarded...
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Storytel Belgium set to launch October 28, with Dutch-language stand-up comedy and audiobooks. French-speakers will have to wait
Storytel’s 21st market is a country of 11.5 million people where only 60% of the population speak...
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Shortlist announced for 12th Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature
With 221 submissions from 22 countries, the judging panel for 12th edition of the Etisalat Award...
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Quibi’s failure is not a sign of impending doom for digital books subscription. Just the opposite
If the whole point of Quibi was to offer consumers ten-minute video breaks in their busy lives in...
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Gender equality fairy tale books launched in Vietnam
Different from the traditional approach, the character system in these modern series of fairy...
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Shortlist announced for the 2020 African Writers Awards and the Wakini Kuria Award for Children’s Literature
The African Writers Development Trust is an NGO that provides publishing grants, educational...
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Bookwire: ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts do not cannibalise, but act in a “mutually reinforcing manner”
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Sweden’s Nextory to launch in Netherlands in December. Seeks expansion capital
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Anger in Malaysia as children taught animal cruelty in school books
The verb “to throw”, and its local language equivalents, are illustrated in the book in question...
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The IPA’s State of Publishing Reports offer new global perspectives
“There is such a wealth of information in these reports that publishers and publishers’...
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Philippines Senator calls for digitisation of textbooks to ensure students do not have to share books
Will a proposed amendment to the Filipino book laws be enough to kick-start digitisation of the...
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Amazon Sweden to launch in November?
All the indications are Amazon Sweden will launch next month, and print books will be part of it....
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Sweden’s Nextory reports Q3 revenues up 76%, subscribers up 81%. But with no real numbers, what does this mean?
Clearly the numbers Nextory is showing investors are hitting the mark. Earlier this year Nextory...
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Is Sweden’s Nextory being deliberately excluded from the Norway book market?
Is something rotten in the state of Norway? Just as it emerges the third largest Norwegian digital...
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NABU digital reading app launches in Kenya with free content in English and Kiswahili
“Building a bridge to equality, one mother tongue at a time.” Based in New York and with offices...
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Norway’s authors fight to be on more unlimited subscription platforms
Author Jørn Lier Horst moved to Strawberry publishing house Capitana, and went from having titles...
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Sweden’s BookBeat sees 69% revenue boost. On target to reach $57 million by end 2020 with 400,000 subscribers
“Five years ago, we still had not launched our beta app and now, just a short distance into the...
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