Morocco’s National Library goes digital as country locked down
Morocco is among the many countries closing libraries to help contain the Coronavirus threat, and...
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Category: Africa
Morocco’s Casablanca International Book Fair saw a half million visitors for third year in succession, yet still we’re told Arabs don’t read
It’s a central part of global publishing’s urban mythology. Arabs don’t read. Or rather, they do,...
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YouScribe launches in Burkina Faso as African expansion continues. You can’t put the digital subscription genie back in the bottle
With over half a billion Africans online it was always just a matter of time before digital...
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The biggest book fair in the world is an Arab event in Africa. 3.5 million visitors at Egypt’s Cairo International Book Fair. Publishers look the other way
Not that you’d know it reading the western publishing industry trade journals, but the Cairo...
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Egypt’s Cairo International Book Fair clocks 600,000 visitors in first four days. Book sales up on 2019
Egypt’s Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem, reported back on the first four days of the 14-day...
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 19-25
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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As publishers look the other way, Hopster joins the video operators that understand Africa’s half billion internet user digital-first potential
Africa starts the new decade with substantially over 520 million people online. 522 million was...
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In Zimbabwe pirate booksellers are raking in the cash from "desperate parents" as publishers and booksellers struggle. A multi-agency solution is needed
Piracy is a problem everywhere, but especially so in the less stable emerging markets of Africa,...
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The TNPS Festive Season Weeks in Review
For those who didn’t get the chance to open any or all the regular email notifications from TNPS,...
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SprinNG launches new $275 prize for female Nigerian authors – not to publish, but to promote, distribute and buy an already published book
First off, let’s get the financials out of the way. $275 may not seem like a lot in the USA or...
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January 2020 Book Fair Snapshot. 8-10 million people spending millions of dollars on books in countries widely regarded as publishing backwaters
2020 is off to a great start on the global book fair front, but what follows should be seen as...
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Video streaming service StarzPlay partners with Asiacell to target the lucrative Iraq market. Can Storytel Arabia, Booklava, Dhad and Kitab Sawti be far behind?
When it comes to the Arab digital books market the field is surprisingly competitive, with Dhad,...
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