Beijing Int. Book Fair postponed at two days notice as Pandemic rages in China
What chance BIBF22? While much of the world seems to have learned to live with the Covid-19...
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Category: China
The Shanghai Children’s Book Fair postponement has a stark message for western publishers
Industry-media coverage of the Shanghai postponement has been brief and news-focussed as always,...
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South China Morning Post ventures into the metaverse – lessons for book publishers
The immediate appeal of the metaverse for book publishers, especially those in the comics, graphic...
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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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Start the Day Global – essential industry reading from around the world
As the monsoon season draws to a close here in West Africa hopes rise that TNPS can get back on...
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China’s last-minute Beijing IBF cancellation is a reminder Pandemic Y2 is far from over and publishers need to be thinking about Pandemic Y3
Publishers need to be strategising about Pandemic Y3 as a very realistic prospect, not making...
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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...
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Be afraid. Be just a tiny bit afraid. TikTok owner ByteDance targets 3-fold growth in 2021
One thing we all need to understand is that AI-produced content doesn’t have to be perfect to be...
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Tencent’s China Literature targets 49 million online readers outside China, with North America to supply 100,000 authors
As western consumer patterns slowly adjust to the subscription-orientated New Normal so the...
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Global internet users edge towards 5 billion, and 1 billion of them will be in China
…We can safely say it’s 5 billion, give or take, and it’s not rocket science to...
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As children’s audio booms in China, the OUP says “China is now one of our fastest-growing and most strategically important markets”
The Oxford University Press picked up 400,000 paying subscribers for an audio series offered on...
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Mapping the New Normal: China’s Smart Beijing Int. Book Fair sets the bar for Frankfurt with 5G, AR, VR and a year-round Smart Rights Link
Publishers and agents will have access to a Smart Rights Link that will be available all year...
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