Category: Book Fairs
Serbia’s publishers lead the West’s presence at Iran’s First Virtual Tehran International Book Fair
It’s not clear yet how successful the event has been – the regular book fair is Iran’s largest...
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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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Big Bad Wolf to debut in Sharjah, UAE, in partnership with SBA
Big Bad Wolf is no stranger to the United Arab Emirates, but its previous in-person visits were to...
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India: 39th Agartala Book Fair to be held in Tripura in February as Kolkata Int. Book Fair delayed until June
A June Kolkata fair pre-supposes the pandemic will be under a semblance of control by then, but as...
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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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Big Bad Wolf Myanmar starts its online mega-sale of English-language books. Publishers look the other way
For both domestic and international publishers the event is a watershed moment, adding Myanmar to...
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São Paulo Bienial attracts 1.3 million in its first online incarnation. One more digital genie that won’t be going back in the bottle
“This was an unprecedented event. For the first time, we brought together people from all over...
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India’s Kolkata International Book Fair now most likely for June, but the only guarantee seems to be there won’t be an online event in lieu
In a country of 560 million internet users that ought to come as a surprise, but sadly does not....
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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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Big Bad Wolf tops 3 million online buyers. Second Thailand sale prepped. A watershed moment for global publishing redux
Big Bad Wolf hesitantly ventured online in Indonesia on Tokopedia as the pandemic struck. It then...
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Philippines – Manila Virtual Int. Book Fair extended by a full month to meet demand
Scheduled to run 7 days, demand was so great at the online version of the Manila International...
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The Kuwait Virtual Book Fair is underway, with its own online bookstore
Kuwait’s International Book Fair was put on hold during the summer as the pandemic wrought...
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