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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Category: Bangladesh
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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Bangladesh Amar Ekushey Boi Mela now set for late February-early March
Ramadan is due to start mid-April, and after that the rains will be underway… But at the same time...
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Amar Ekushey Boi Mela pivots to digital and back to in-person in the space of a week amid publisher objections. Bangladeshi consumers pay the price
To state that “A virtual book fair can never be an alternative to our historic tradition” is to...
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Start The Day Global: Bangladesh, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Malaysia and Thailand
Whimsical publishing stories from around the world. Today five post excerpts from Thailand,...
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Bangladesh: 91st birthday of poet Shamsur Rahman
A key figure in Bengali literature from the latter half of the 20th century, Rahman was regarded...
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In Bangladesh bookstores face ruin amid the pandemic. But with 5 ebook stores, myriad online book stores, and 96 million internet users, all is not lost
With internet penetration at just 58% digital might seem like a no-hope option right now, but...
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