Category: Book Fairs
Buchmesse Guest of Honour Canada unlikely to attend in-person as for the second year Frankfurt plays dice with the publishing industry
The growing evidence, one and a half years into the Pandemic, is that publishers prosper just fine...
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PRH, Bloomsbury and HarperCollins among those not attending the Buchmesse this year. As Pandemic Y2 fears grow, more will – and should – follow suit
Publishers need to be asking themselves, if they seriously aren’t ready to open their offices...
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Taiwan’s Taipei Book Fair is on tour while sister fair TIBE was virtual. What chance TIBE 2022 will go ahead in-person?
That’s always supposing – a big assumption right now – that by next June the Pandemic is in...
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China’s last-minute Beijing IBF cancellation is a reminder Pandemic Y2 is far from over and publishers need to be thinking about Pandemic Y3
Publishers need to be strategising about Pandemic Y3 as a very realistic prospect, not making...
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India’s online Delhi Book Fair expects more than 300,000 visitors this September
While the Delhi events organisers understand the potential of digital, the Kolkata organisers seem...
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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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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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Sharjah will be Bologna 2022 Guest of Honour as Bologna ‘21 clocks 75,000 digital visitors
We do have a “final” figure of 75,000 visitors, and counting. And that’s one of the beauties of...
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China’s 1 billion internet users underpin the Beijing International Book Fair this year
With one billion internet users it’s no surprise that China is ahead of the game. Publishers...
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Colombia’s pandemic-driven online book sales boom
Does that mean print is stil king? Of course, but what really matters is how consumers will...
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London Book Fair won’t refund exhibitors this year as it admits defeat and pivots to digital. Will publishers ever trust LBF again?
In other words, we haven’t a clue yet what we’ll be doing, because we are only doing this digital...
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