“ISBN hyperinflation” and “arteriosclerosis of distribution channels.” Richard Charkin at large
Which reader is so poorly educated that they might be confused by the fact that there are a lot of...
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Author: Mark Williams
Qatar – Doha International Book Fair clocks 300,000 visitors – 10% of the population – inc. 15,000 children
For comparison, Frankfurt would need to pull in 8.4 million visitors and London 6.8 million...
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China’s Beijing International Book Fair returns with 200,000 visitors
The 2024 dates for the BIBF have been set for June 19-23, when hopefully we’ll see the fair...
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“We are not a computer algorithm.” UK Booksellers protest publishers linking to Amazon during almost-over IBW
The letter is being emailed to publishers today, June 23 – one day before Independent...
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Germany’s Thalia buys into Austria’s self-pub start-up Storylution. “A new age of book creation”?
The comparison with the music industry is bewildering. The 2020s music industry is not driven by...
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