Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre signs MoUs with music streaming platform Anghami and audiobook provider Iqraaly
Anghami, with a catalogue of 57 million songs and 200,000 podcasts, is the first to sign up.
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Author: Mark Williams
Morocco confirmed as Sharjah International Book Fair Guest of Honour
The Sharjah International Book Fair can attract over 2 million visitors in a good year, and is one of the few Arabic book fairs that gets wide international coverage, so being a SIBF Guest of Honour is a coveted prize.
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Belgium’s “bad year for the book market” may not be so bad after all
“The problem with this Gfk report is that it reflects only print sales from selected consumer avenues, namely 75 (of 335) bookstores reporting cash turnover at the till. Digital sales, which by some estimates total 25% of the market, are therefore excluded.
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“Publishers are already using way too much AI” (and other nonsense)
Just as AI is not to be afforded copyright protection by human law, nor is it to be afforded the assumption of innocence until proven guilty in the court of human opinion. At least, not by writers who think their job is above the law of Darwinian natural selection and survival of the fittest.
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2024 on target to clock $1.2 billion in invisible ebook revenues as AAP reports decline
The total sum paid out to self-publishers and small presses so far this year is $205.8 million, putting ebook unlimited subscription service Kindle Unlimited on target to pay out $620m in royalties in 2024.
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