Bangladesh handed out 353 million school text books on New Year’s Day. 2.2 billion books in total since the programme began
Bangladesh has 42 million children in its primary and secondary school, and every year, on the...
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Category: Academic and specialist publishing
The TNPS Week In Review: December 8-14
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Cactus Communications’ university best practices magazine Blank:a is now available online as well as in print
With the state aim of “disseminating university best practices globally”, the print magazine...
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PRK UK’s new centralised rights; B&N Education’s poor quarter; Hachette UK’s Changing the Story Day; PRH UK’s Xmas Gift site
A quick glance at some top publishing stories from the industry trade journals. PRH UK unveils...
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Pearson to phase out print textbooks in US as digital gathers momentum
As one of the world’s largest education publishing companies, the news that Pearson is to phase...
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French ebook store Numilog rolls out pay-per-page reading for consumers. Will it be vulnerable to the problems that Kindle Unlimited faces?
The French ebook and audio store Numilog has been focused primarily, although not exclusively, on...
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US e-textbook subscription service Cengage hits 1 million subscribers in just 7 months
2019 is definitely shaping up to be the year digital subscription comes of age. Hard on the heels...
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Storytel breaks new ground with commercial collaboration with Sweden’s Avanza to offer business audiobooks
Sweden’s banking and finance company Avanza has long offered financial advice via podcasts, so it...
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Sophie Rochester’s The Literary Platform shutters after ten years. Moves on to life-style courses
Subscribers to book tech consultancy website The Literary Platform will have been surprised to...
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African publishers pay the price for putting all their eggs in one basket
The Angolan government has recently announced it will be spending an extra $40 million in 2019 on...
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The Punjab gets 20 new digital libraries, but easy access to ebooks is still a distant dream in Pakistan
While Pakistan has had digital libraries for much of this century (the Higher Education Commission...
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Augmented reality, educational games for science textbooks, and a Youtube channel The Bangladesh book fair delivers more surprises
The month-long Amar Ekushey Boi Mela book festival in Dhaka is among many other things an...
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