As India’s Niyogi Books prepares to launch its first Hindi titles next month, the company sees digital as an ally, not a threat
For a paper-importing country like India, rising paper prices pose a more serious challenge in...
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Author: Mark Williams
Hakuna matata! African authors need to create a canon of African children’s literature that is indeed their own. But that can be achieved without inverted racism and denigrating the works of other cultures
Cultural appropriation, while not new, is a rising theme in a modern world that is connected in a...
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In Egypt calls grow to boycott world’s largest book fair. Cairo Int. Book Fair Director steps up to explain the CIBF’s unpopular relocation
At the best of times the logistics of setting up the world’s biggest book fair are problematic....
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The Lebanese National Library will reopen in Beirut in January, forty years after the Lebanese Civil War saw its destruction
When conflict erupted in Beirut in 1975 the Lebanese National Library was an inevitable casualty,...
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India’s oldest pavement bookseller turns his final page, but the Chennai street bookstore goes on
If you’re a booklover and you’ve ever been to India’s Chennai then chances are you’ve seen, and...
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