UK online print at risk as Gardners and Hive suspend activity and Waterstones struggles. James Daunt will be seeing Nook in a new light
If it seemed, for a while, that online print sales could sustain publishers and booksellers...
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Author: Mark Williams
Malaysia: 2020-21 UNESCO World Book Capital ceremony postponed due to coronavirus
April should have seen a glorious ceremony in the Malaysian capital as the UAE’s Sharjah...
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Egypt’s Alexandria International Book Fair adds 200,000 free ebooks to its website
Despite Egypt leading Africa in coronavirus fatalities (40 dead as this post goes live) and the...
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The Big 5 are out of Book Expo America but BEA says the show will go on as a New Yorker dies every 6 minutes from the coronavirus. BEA, end this obscene farce now
As the week ended Hachette joined Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Penguin...
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Sweden’s audiobook subscription service Bokus Play to carry ebooks, launch own e-reader
While audiobooks tend to dominate the headlines about digital books streaming, most subscription...
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