Nigeria – Akada Children Book Festival “a Catalyst” for Nigerian Children’s Publishing
Per UNICEF, 75 per cent of children in Nigeria, aged 7 to 14 years, cannot read a simple sentence...
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Category: Children’s Books
The 14th Asian Festival of Children’s Content is hosting Vietnam, a country with more internet users than Germany
Issues of political censorship notwithstanding, Vietnam is an exciting emerging market looking to...
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The new Harry Potter TV series. Lazy and unneeded, or a chance to refresh a cultural icon?
The proposed new TV series is chance to refresh Harry Potter and create a wizard hero fit for the...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up # 7
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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HarperCollins, why does a $3 ebook produced and sold in India cost $13 in the US?
HarperCollins, is this deliberate obtuseness, unfathomable dumbness or just plain stupidity? 8...
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China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair confirms November dates for 10th anniversary incarnation
This will be the first year since the pandemic began that China’s big book fairs have...
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Spain: AI-created personalised children’s books – “the start of a major disruption in the children’s content industry”
This AI-created audio-visual format “will change the rules of the game in this...
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Stop the Press! Major UK newspaper discovers existence of children’s books
Cinderella? If (Daily Telegraph Arts Editor Ben) Lawrence fancies himself as the transforming...
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Recommended reading: Norway – Digital subscription and short children’s books
TNPS readers say they often miss the many short posts I put out on LinkedIn each day, that are...
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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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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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Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair postponed. Will now run with Bologna. But is either event realistic right now?
With London, Bologna and now Shanghai all lining up for the spring it could be a very exciting...
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