Category: Book Fairs
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
Bologna drops in-person event. Strengthens its digital fair. LBF keeps publishers guessing
One has to wonder if the London Book Fair as we know it even has a future, or if, like it’s US...
Read More
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.”...
Read More
UK: Scotland’s John O’Groats Book Festival goes online this year as England’s London Book Fair dithers
“Other book festivals have done similar in going digital. The organisers of the Islay Book...
Read More
Déjà vu as London Book Fair descends into farce for second year running. Time to put 2021 on hold, ditch Reed Exhibitions, and think about the New Normal
LBF21 might just manage to hobble forward this summer, but the right thing to do is to put it out...
Read More