Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective Revisited
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FYI – Frankfurt Buchmesse Professional Programme 2022: Masterclasses on TikTok, Audiobooks and Distribution
From the Buchmesse newsletter Using AI to create audiobooks, communicating with the fan community...
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Storytel launches in France with tiered access and a headline that mentions neither
No unlimited subscription on offer here, but that’s a reflection of French publishing rather...
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TikTok, forecast to reach 1.8 billion monthly active users by end 2022, is the search engine of choice for some
Book publishers are by now acutely aware that TikTok’s BookTok has become a major channel...
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Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective Revisited
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Spotify’s “game-changer” – just the first ripples of the seismic shift in the publishing landscape that began in 2020
TNPS August 2020: “While the ripples won’t be felt for some time, we are witnessing a...
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Philippines: Manila International Book Fair concludes
The 2019 incarnation drew a crowd of 160,000, but it’s unlikely the 2022 event came even...
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Palestine International Book Fair – the industry looks the other way
Yet the Israeli equivalent, the Jerusalem International Book Forum, gets full coverage Okay, so...
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India – “Long Night of LiteratureS”speed-dating for books returns this month
Seven years on and this bizarre speed-dating for literature continues to draw crowds. India is of...
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Superman comic sells for record $3.4 million
But the record will probably fall next week. And it’s not “the” record. ICV2...
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Big Bad Wolf debuts in Africa. Tanzania the first step. Kenya next?
This venture is being supported by the Sharjah Book Authority in keeping with the 2019 agreement...
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UK – James Daunt isn’t cut out to be a transnational industry tycoon. Waterstones is paying the price
Just maybe, Jim, its time you handed Waterstones management to someone who is actually in the UK...
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Can Africans Write Millennial Fiction?
What will it take to make publishers join the dots and take this incredible market of 590 million...
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“We know just how and where our audience is accessing content in today’s ever-changing landscape.”
Paraphrasing Jessica Cruel’s comment as Markus Dohle might have put it: “We know just...
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Recommended reading: Norway – Digital subscription and short children’s books
TNPS readers say they often miss the many short posts I put out on LinkedIn each day, that are...
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Egypt – 2023 Cairo International Book Fair dates announced
The Cairo International Book Fair is usually the biggest book fair in the world by visitor...
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UK – Publishers ‘on brink of collapse’ as US-owned UK distributor struggles
Publishers have warned some firms are being driven to “the brink of collapse” by ongoing issues...
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Digital Repression In The Middle East And North Africa (and beyond)
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India – JCB Prize for Literature announces 2022’s longlist
Titles in Urdu, Hindi, and Nepali have been featured in the longlist for the first time....
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USA – The top podcast genre chart for Q2 2022
For book publishers insights like these can be invaluable in helping target audiences as...
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How self-publishers are taking digital library eyeballs from mainstream publishers
Bigger publishers might want to pay attention, not just because sometimes indies lead the way with...
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