Bangladesh – Children’s books on traditional games launched by Unesco, The Asia Foundation, in print and digital formats
In a move somewhat at odds with standard publishing practice in Bangladesh, e-book versions of the...
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Author: Mark Williams
India’s Kolkata IBF postponed. Publishers “face starvation” with no digital safety net in a country of 755 million internet users
One might excuse the digital resistance for their reluctance to move with the times given India is...
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Romania’s 6-event BookFest 2022 programme announced, subject to the pandemic’s whim
With 14 million of its 19 million population online one might think a digital fall-back plan would...
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ComiXology finally to be absorbed into the Amazon Kindle store. Say goodbye to Steinberger’s dream of global reach
But we can be certain that, as ComiXology is finally absorbed into the Kindle store, we can say...
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Singapore, population 5.9 million, saw 8 million downloads from OverDrive in2021, equalling Los Angeles, and beaten only by Toronto as 121 libraries exceeded 1 million digital downloads
All told OverDrive saw 506 million downloads in 2021, mostly in North America, and of course none...
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