Category: Book Fairs
Arab book market focus: Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival 2022 (UAE)
The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival is one of the biggest children’s literary events in the...
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Registration opens for hybrid Nigeria International Book Fair
Nigeria and other national publishing events organisers across sub-Saharan Africa would do well to...
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Reimagined Toy Fair New York postponed until 2023. Lessons for the publishing industry
The industry is in danger of sleepwalking into the next crises (plural, and likely many), some of...
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Botswana – Gaborone Book Festival dates announced
One of southern Africa’s biggest publishing events will be hybrid this year. The Gaborone...
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Qatar’s first Ramadan Book Fair underway as Arab book fair season attracts millions in Q1 2022
It will be after the summer that we begin to put together exactly how big is the book fair...
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Big Bad Wolf’s extended Bangkok sale ends. Returns to Dubai this month
Those new to TNPS may be wondering if Big Bad Wolf has lost the plot taking a million...
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Thailand’s National and International Book Fairs underway as Big Bad Wolf winds up its Bangkok event
The 50th National Book Fair and the 20th Bangkok International Book Fair are still underway in...
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Algiers Int. Book Fair clocks 1.3 million in-person visitors and a digital success too
Running March 24 through 31 the eight day event averaged over 160,000 in-person visitors per day....
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Bologna’s digital numbers set new records, but you could be forgiven for not realising
The BCBF website attracted 2 million views. There were 200,000 unique users signed in, of which...
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Is the “digital devil” here to stay?
India has 755 million people online, second only to China. That’s more than double the USA’s...
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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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India – Hybrid Kolkata Int. Book Fair breaks records with $3 million sales. 3.5 million online visitors outnumber footfall, but digital gets no credit
The big question,: will the Kolkata Fair organisers take digital seriously in 2023 and give the...
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