With the 2018 Nigeria International Book Fair set to kick off in Lagos next week (May 7-12), the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Lagos State Chapter, will be hosting a literary and reading event for writers called Authors’ Groove. Reports PM Parrot: The theme for this year’s Authors’ Groove is “Literary Agency and the Improvement Read More …
Ebooks are nothing new in Iran, but up until now there hasn’t been an ereader capable of handling the Farsi (Persian) script. That all changed this week when the Iranian ebook retailer Fidibo launched a Farsi-enabled ereader. The first of the Fidibook series is the Hannah F1, a 6” Android device with an e-ink screen, Read More …
Unless you’ve been riding camels in the Gobi Desert in Outer Mongolia, snorkeling in the warm seas around Trinidad & Tobago, on safari in Botswana’s Kalahari, or relaxing on the Caspian Sea beaches of Azerbaijan, you cannot help but have noticed it was World Book Day this week. In fact, even if you were in Read More …
In Argentina today the Buenos Aries International Book Fair kicks off. It runs from April 26 through May 14, and 1.2 million visitors are expected. At the other end of the scale, a smaller but no less significant book event is underway in South Africa. The Rutanang Book Festival runs April 26-28. Although it started back Read More …
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that the global book market is the USA, the UK, a handful of other Anglophone and west European countries, and , well, that’s it. Or so it seems sometimes. But in this week of World Book Day TNPS, not one to shy away from shining a spotlight on the invisible Read More …
The annual Eurasia Book Fair kicked off in Kazakhstan yesterday, just one among countless book fairs happening around the globe this week, many far bigger, so no surprise it isn’t making any headlines. With just 28,000 visitors expected this isn’t one of the biggest book fairs on the planet – literally millions of people are Read More …
Digital debates are nothing new at the Arab book fairs, but 2018 may prove the tipping point in which digital books start to become mainstream in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region and other parts of the world hitherto considered indifferent to ebooks. The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which starts today in the Read More …
HarperCollins will be launching its catalogue on the Juggernaut app this summer as the company seeks to embrace the potential of the India digital books market. HarperCollins publishes some of the finest and most read books in the world – and we are delighted to be selling these on our platform and working closely with Read More …
Monday April 23 was World Book Day and across the globe the event is being celebrated. This week TNPS will be taking some snapshot views of how different countries are marking the occasion. Today we take at look at events in Nigeria and India. Airtel Nigeria is this week donating 5000 books and hosting book-reading Read More …
The global publishing market has never been more exciting, and every day myriad publishing stories cross my screen that I’d love to develop here at TNPS, but there simply isn’t time. But if you’re reading TNPS in the first place you probably share my obsession with all things international publishing, and would no doubt enjoy Read More …
