Bangladesh – 6 million visitors spent $4.4 million on books at the world’s biggest book fair
…But when we consider Bangladesh has literally twice as many internet users as the UK,...
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Category: Bangladesh
Bangladesh – can the book fair beat $10 million in book sales next month?
Come March, as the Boi Mela book-buying bonanza fades away, it will be time for Bangladesh...
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450,000 attended India’s Bangladesh Book Fair
It may be too late now for Indian publishers to make arrangements to participate in the Amar...
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As printing costs soar in Bangladesh, few publishers seem aware there are 130 million people online
The tragedy is many publishers will fail this coming year as print prices for consumers spiral out...
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300 million Bengali speakers finally get an ebook store, but no it’s not a world first
Amazon supports five Indian languages for its Amazon India operation (ebooks only, not print or...
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Books worth over $6.1 million sold at Bangladesh Book Fair as the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela finally got a website
It seems to have taken a pandemic to finally get the message across, but we’re off to a good...
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Bangladesh – Children’s books on traditional games launched by Unesco, The Asia Foundation, in print and digital formats
In a move somewhat at odds with standard publishing practice in Bangladesh, e-book versions of the...
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Bangladesh Publishers & Booksellers Ass. seeks $190 million govt. aid to cover the consequences of its myopic pre-Pandemic indifference to digital
The Bangladeshi government needs to “sit down with the publishing industry and provide incentives...
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Bangladesh: Amar Ekushey Boi Mela will close early as Covid-19 races out of control. Publishers that resisted digital report huge losses
We are, after all, talking here a country of 111 million internet users. But that seems beyond the...
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Bangladesh Boi Mela lurches from crisis to crisis. Online sales soar. Pub’ Assns look the other way
“We are not sure what a virtual book fair is, but it will definitely spell trouble.”...
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Bangladesh publishers pay heavy price for resisting a hybrid Boi Mela as event hours reduced and booklovers stay away
To state that “A virtual book fair can never be an alternative to our historic tradition” is to...
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Bangladesh Amar Ekushey Boi Mela set for March as govt. minister dismisses digital and urges printing more books to sustain industry
Bangladesh began 2021 with just 58.4% of its population online, which sounds pitiful until you...
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