China’s Beijing International Book Fair will be online this year
With less than 8 weeks to go the Beijing International Book Fair has cancelled all its physical...
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TikTok owner ByteDance moves into the 560 million listener $1.1 bn China audiobook arena with AI narrations
When it comes to AI-narrated audio the publishing industry has a relaxed, even complacent stance....
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The TNPS Week In Review: January 12-18
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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China has more than 70,000 bookstores, fuelling the prospect that China is now the world’s largest book market
Last week the China Bookstore Conference released its latest figures, showing that there are more...
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The TNPS Week In Review: December 8-14
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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China Radio International enters publishing partnership with Malaysia’s Institute of Language and Literature
Those familiar with the Malaysian literary scene will know Mandarin Chinese is very much the...
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The 33rd Beijing Book Fair set for January
Running 9-11 January 2020, the 33rd Beijing Book Fair will be held in the capital’s China...
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Beijing local govt. subsidised bookstores to the tune of $14 million in 2019
100 million yuan ($14 million) is how much the Beijing municipal government spent this year to...
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UAE’s Emirates Publishers Association debuts at 7th Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair
The Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair has quickly risen to be the pre-eminent children’s...
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Alibaba nets $1 bn in 68 seconds. Beats Amazon’s last quarter revenue in one day. Publishers should be asking themselves just how big the China book market might be
First the numbers. Alibaba Group, one of many Chinese e-commerce firms that are referred to as...
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Foreign books sales in Romania; the origins of Vietnam’s alphabet; invisible book fairs in China and Kurdistan
We Start The Day Global today in Romania, where BooksExpress.Ro, a Romania book store specialising...
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Three months jail for not returning a library book. EC horror comics. Canada’s only poetry book store. China’s biggest book store
Thanks to Instagram, poetry has been given a new lease of life, with the beauty of poetry suddenly...
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