Category: China
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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Frankfurt trade attendance up 1.8% amid fewer exhibitors from fewer countries. What might this mean for the future of the Buchmesse?
Frankfurt Buchmesse has announced its final numbers from the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair, and while...
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320,000 visitors. 6,000 copyright agreements. 5G author holograms. Beijing’s 26th Int. Book Fair hailed a success and a gateway to Asia
The fun is over and the reckoning begins. The 26th Beijing International Book Fair was by all...
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Beijing International Book Fair fields 2,600 exhibitors from 95 countries this month as the centre of publishing industry gravity shifts inexorably east
The 2019 Beijing International Book Fair is looming, and it promises to be the most significant...
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“Publish Africa – the digital advantage” # 3 is now available
The joint StreetLib-TNPS bi-weekly newsletter Publish Africa – the digital advantage...
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A prospective Bible shortage drives home the unhealthy reliance of the US publishing industry on China’s printers
Leaving aside any debate about the rights and wrongs of the US-China trade dispute and tariffs...
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220 Taiwanese publishers expected at Taiwan Strait Book Fair in PRC as the two Chinas work towards an integrated publishing sector
Set for September 20-22 this year the 15th Taiwan Strait Book Fair is being held in Xiamen, Fujian...
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Toy Story 4 pays the price for historical indifference to future markets. A lesson publishers can learn from
Not for the first time, a major Hollywood movie opened in China before the US, but hopes of a...
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East meets West at the mouth-watering 2019 Macao International Book Fair in July
With a population of just 640,000 Macao is one of the smaller book markets in Asia, but with the...
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As China prepares to leapfrog the USA as the world’s largest film market next year, publishers should take notice
It was back in 2015 that China jumped the US to take top spot for the most cinema goers. Hardly...
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