Morocco to be Guest of Honour at the Paris Book Festival
What I love about the Morocco pavilion at the Paris Book Festival this year is that visitors can explore five thematic areas, each offering a unique experience.
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Category: France
With the “Tyranny of the Square Metre” in the Rear-View Mirror, the April Festival du Livre de Paris Promises to Be the Best Yet
London Book Fair-goers will know the feeling well, sitting on the floor because the organising company refused to supply adequate seating.
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French Authors Will Soon Know Their True Book Sales Figures
While Filéas may not revolutionise the world, or even French publishing, overnight, it has the potential to significantly improve the French book industry’s transparency and efficiency, and if it is successful we’ll almost certainly see more of the same in other markets.
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Centre Pompidou’s Embrace of Comics: A New Era for the 9th Art
British girls’ comics held a special fascination for me, and while the storylines all too often reflected twentieth century British class divisions, the art in many girls comics, and especially those from the DC Thomson camp, was a joy to behold.
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David Shelley and Hachette face new upheaval as Vivendi prepares to play the stock market game
Whatever name the new group is given, Hachette publishing will be run to please the stock market’s fickle whims.
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France: Digital up amid overall decline for 2022 publishing, but whole market still ahead of 2019
“Considered perhaps a little quickly as dead and buried, the digital market of French...
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Storytel launches in France with tiered access and a headline that mentions neither
No unlimited subscription on offer here, but that’s a reflection of French publishing rather...
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“Nextory ex Youboox” – Nextory rebrands its French acquisition, but what does this mean for the global audiobook industry?
One significant difference between Nextory France and the other Nextory and Storytel markets is...
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Paris Book Fair gets new name. Gets new look. Gets rid of Reed Expo and the “tyranny of the square metre”
“We are no longer working on the model of Reed Expo: here, we offer the Champ de Mars and...
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Nextory-owned Youboox launches Switch, a “new” format that combines ebook and audiobook. Let’s call it an audio ebook
Given Youboox was acquired by Sweden-based Nextory in October it seems a safe bet we will see this...
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Pandemic Y3’s first major book fair casualty is Brussels. What hope for London and Bologna?
The now cancelled Brussels event was twelve weeks away. Bologna is 14 weeks away. London is 16...
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With the acquisition of Youboox, Nextory blazes a trail beyond Storytel’s shadow
The big story here is not catalogue size but rather the seismic shift in Nextory’s expansion...
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