Malta Book Festival is online in November
The Malta Book Festival typically attracts 40,000 visitors, equivalent to almost 10% of the...
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Category: Book Fairs
Big Bad Wolf Malaysia will be online in November. 20 million books across 40,000 titles
By now the Big Bad Wolf team have learned lessons from previous online incarnations in Indonesia,...
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São Paulo International Book Fair set for 2022 with a 2020 virtual event in December
This year’s São Paulo Bienial will be a virtual event in December. The next Bienial has been...
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Book Expo Thailand “drawing huge interest” with in-person event
It’s not clear if the results of the March online event informed Pubat’s decision to...
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Mapping the New Normal: Palestine Writes Literature Festival will be online in December
The full program for the Palestine Writes Literature Festival will be announced in November, but...
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Mexico’s FIL Guadalajara will be virtual this year. But time is now short to make this totally predictable pivot work
First it will mean divesting the notion that FIL Guadalajara will be virtual “for this year only”,...
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“’#fakefurt’ risks becoming just a moment that over time becomes a season and then a continuum” – Philip Jones, The Bookseller, on the digital Buchmesse
We should also be clear that the virtual Frankfurt is no fake, but rather the new reality. Even if...
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Sweden’s Gothenburg Book Fair pulls in 373,000 virtual visitors in prime time and still has 3 months of viewing to come – the digital book fair is here to stay
“We see that the virtual book fair can create added value for both authors, publishers and other...
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Mark Williams At Large: Perspectives on the Publishing Week
As the pandemic enters its second wave, Big 5 publisher Macmillan starts hiring again, raises its...
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Sri Lanka Govt. said Colombo Int. Book Fair can go ahead, then advised the public not to attend, leaving event and exhibitors facing losses
This year’s Colombo International Book Fair faces close scrutiny from health authorities to ensure...
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Sri Lanka’s Colombo International Book Fair bucks the trend and will be in-person from September 18, but at what cost?
While Big bad Wolf opted out of an in-person event for Sri Lanka this year and prepares an online...
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Mapping the New Normal: Indonesia International Book Fair launches online Sept. 28 in the world’s fourth largest country by internet users
“IIBF Virtual 2020 opens the door for a new definition of bookstores, namely the online...
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