Category: Global Publishing
IPA acquires “Exclusive Global Transport Partner” in Emirates Airlines as Setzer and Al-Qasimi reposition the IPA as the champion of the emerging book markets
Emirates Airlines has today become the official partner of the International Publishers...
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Sharjah International Book Fair sets new visitor record – 2.52 million – as Algiers Int. Book Fair footfall declines to “only” 1.1 million
s Given Sharjah is also the UNESCO World Book Capital this year it perhaps won’t come as a...
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Amazon bookstores embrace spine-out shelf-stacking. Indigo sales fall again. And two sides to the Macmillan digital library boycott saga
Some Amazon critics may have been excited by the opening of Nate Hoffelder’s recent post in The...
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Storytel Sweden hits 400,000 subscribers amid 1 million globally, but confusion surrounds the number of Storytel markets. Is it 18 or 19?
Storytel this week announced it has crossed the 400,000 subscriber mark on its home territory,...
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Sharjah International Book Fair sets new Guinness world record – for book-signings
Back in 2010 a world record was set in Turkey when 1,423 authors signed copies of their own books...
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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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IPA President Hugo Setzer calls out censorship as Turkey’s Istanbul International Book Fair opens with hopes to top 1 million visitors
Organized by TÜYAP Fairs in partnership with the Turkish Publishers Association, the 38th Istanbul...
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India’s Vice President calls for a library in every village. That will never happen. But there is an elegant alternative
The scorching summer temperatures are once again behind us in India, and the vibrant Indian book...
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Findaway adds Bookmate, Bookbeat, Axiell, AudiobooksNow and Bokus Play to its distribution portfolio
Findaway was already the biggest player in the audiobooks aggregator arena in September, but this...
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Ghana’s Deborah Ahenkorah wins the Global Centre for Pluralism Award
Buried in the tsunami of publishing news from the Frankfurt Book Fair, this story of a Ghanaian...
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Danish bookstore chain loses $2 million to IT problems
Arnold Busck is one of Denmark’s oldest bookstore chains, founded in Copenhagen in 1896 and...
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“Taking Arabic titles global”, “Global Publishing: What’s next for this growing industry?”, “Publishers’ digital strategy: New ways of storytelling” – Sharjah IBF sets the pace for the next decade
Sharjah’s 9th Publisher Conference, which starts today in advance of the Sharjah International...
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