Category: Book Fairs
Al Dhafra Book Festival 2024: Footfall up 15%, Publisher Participation Doubles, and Fun is the Name of the Game
The festival included a comprehensive programme for children, reinforcing a read for pleasure mindset that we in the west, and especially in the UK and US, seem to have lost sight of, as witness the disturbing fall in the number of kids that read for pleasure both sides of the Atlantic.
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TNPS Thought for Christmas: TV celebrity children’s authors will never match the magic of Rowling or Blyton
Fewer and fewer children are reading for pleasure, in large part because the education system has failed them, but also in no small part because a TV celebrity riding on a ghostwriter’s skills and a jovial TV persona will never match the magic of a JK Rowling or an Enid Blyton, that wrote for children, not for fame and fortune.
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Saudi Arabia – Jeddah Book Fair 2024 Has Just Concluded
Among the usual highlights is a one-off event celebrated the Year of the Camel (in fact the Year of the Camelids, so alpacas, lamas and vicunas too, but guessing there aren’t too many of those on the Peninsula).
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Saudi Arabia – Jeddah Book Fair 2024 Is Underway
Among the usual highlights is a one-off event celebrating the Year of the Camel (in fact the Year of the Camelids, so alpacas , lamas and vicunas too, but guessing there aren’t too many of those on the Peninsula).
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Colombia – FILBAC, the International Book Fair of Barranquilla, the Atlantic and the Caribbean launches this week
What especially appealed to me is that FILBAC will be city-wide, not just at a single venue, integrating the entire city into its celebration.
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India – 27th Kochi International Book Festival underway. 8th Kochi Literature Festival set for 4th-8th. 100,000 visitors expected
India remains, for TNPS, the most exciting publishing prospect on the planet.
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India’s Amdavad Book Fair morphs into the Ahmedabad International Book Festival
The choice of name, styling itself as a book festival rather than an international book fair suggests a pragmatic approach towards the event’s future, with focus on readers over rights and the industry’s needs.
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Shanghai International Art Book Fair: A New Chapter for Global Art Publishing
A growing and exciting market opportunity for publishers outside China to explore cultural reach beyond traditional literature, and a reminder that the global publishing market beyond the usual suspects is an untapped goldmine.
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“See you in Sharjah!”
Sharjah goes from strength to strength, as the centre of global publishing gravity inexorably shifts east following the collapse of Book Expo NY.
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Overshadowed by Frankfurt, the 10th Baku International Book Fair is set for early October
At the best of times, events like these, on the notional margins of publishing civilisation, go barely noticed, and how much more when they come at a time when all eyes are on the behemoth that is the Buchmesse.
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The Dominican Republic’s 26th Santo Domingo International Book Fair kicks off November
FILSD23 was marred by protests and calls for a boycott, because Israel was lined up as Guest of Honour, at a time when the Palestine crisis was still daily news, not a reporting afterthought.
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Colombia – 18th Medillin Book and Culture Festival clocks a half million visitors, record revenues
Medellín’s festival is celebrated for its grassroots approach, attracting a diverse local audience and fostering a strong sense of community that makes the half-million footfall all the more impressive.
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