Bangladesh – Ekushey Boi Mela Concludes After a Month of Low Attendance, Poor Sales, Censorship and Mob Rule
Stalls were shut down, books removed, and even female hygiene products were targetted by Islamic extremist elements.
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Category: Bangladesh
Indigenous Literature in Bangladesh Struggles Today, But Has A Brighter Tomorrow Thanks To AI
With 77 million people already online in Bangladesh, the infrastructure is in place. The expertise lies just across the border.
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Bangladesh – The Shaheed Abu Sayeed Book Fair Commemorates A Student Killed In Last Year’s Protests
Hopefully this event will be a feature of the publishing calendar going forward.
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Briefing: Police Request for Pre-Approval of Books at Bangladesh Ekushey Boi Mela
I’m sure the newly-seated IPA President, Gvantsa Jobava, will be addressing this development, that impacts more than 170 million people in this wonderful South Asian country.
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Bangladesh – 2024 Bangla Academy Literary Award Winners
The Ekushey Boi Mela is, by unconfirmed footfall, the largest in the world, reportedly attracting 6 million visitors last year. That seems unlikely, though not impossible, and in any case we are unlikely to see anything comparable this year as the country is still in a state of unrest following the military coup.
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Revenue disappoints, visitor numbers uncertain at this year’s Bangladesh Ekushey Boi Mela
Did the Dhaka event pull in more than Cairo 2024, which this year clocked a record 4.6 million visitors?
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The battle of the giant book fairs
2024 is looking likely to break book fair records around the globe.
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Bangladesh’s New Years Day textbook give-away
One of the most remarkable events in global publishing One of the most remarkable events in global...
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Bangladesh – 7th Non-Fiction Book Fair ends 2023
But something the western publishing industry has done in the past couple of decades is to make an...
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India and Bangladesh to hold a joint book fair in Bangladesh in July amid prospects of a Dhaka Int. Book Fair in 2024
But isolated instances aside, we’re still a long way from seeing Bangladeshi, let alone Pakistani,...
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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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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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