Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective
Just maybe the IPA could bring the digital distributors to their senses, and maybe too knock sense...
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Category: Africa
Registration opens for hybrid Nigeria International Book Fair
Nigeria and other national publishing events organisers across sub-Saharan Africa would do well to...
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Botswana – Gaborone Book Festival dates announced
One of southern Africa’s biggest publishing events will be hybrid this year. The Gaborone...
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Algiers Int. Book Fair clocks 1.3 million in-person visitors and a digital success too
Running March 24 through 31 the eight day event averaged over 160,000 in-person visitors per day....
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Tunisia – 37th Tunis International Book Fair cancelled for 2022, but no, not because of Covid
The 37th FILT will embrace a “new vision” at a new venue at the heart of the Tunisian capital....
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Algeria’s biggest cultural event, the Algiers Int. Book Fair, returns in March
Just maybe it would be better if emerging markets fair organisers simply encouraged people to enjoy books because books are so enjoyable.
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A hybrid Nigeria Int. Book Fair puts women centre stage, but how close is Nigeria to becoming a digital-publishing nation?
There is a huge gap in the market for a major retail and/or subscription platform to offer an...
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Egypt’s hybrid Cairo Int. Book Fair clocks 1.7 million real visitors, 1.6 million online visitors, 225 million online hits, 270,000 virtual tours and 1.5 million online book views
With internet penetration at only 52% it’s easy for publishers to dismiss Egypt as an online...
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Africa has 590 million people online. Here’s the Top 21 Countries for all those publishers looking the other way
What will it take to make publishers join the dots and take this incredible market of 590 million...
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There’s a new kid on the digital books retail and subscription streaming block, but can Legible live up to its own hype?
True global accessibility demands that the books are available where the consumers are and...
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Morocco’s Casablanca Int. Book Fair postponed as Covid-19 tears up the 2021 publishing calendar
Last year the Casablanca International Book Fair attracted over a half million visitors. This year...
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Kubini – Swahili for “imaginary creations” – will be a 9-month-long African comics exhibition in d’Angoulême, France, in 2021
The French connection here should surprise no-one familiar with the book market in France, where...
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