Category: Global Publishing
As excitement builds for the annual Amar Ekushey Boi Mela in Bangladesh, the Bangla Academy Literary Awards are announced
The Bangla Academy is the centre of all things literary in Bangladesh, and this week in the...
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Translated fiction by women of colour; 12 women writers at Emirates Airlines LitFest; Philippines comics; an interview with Gabriel Rodriguez
Start The Day Global today is all over the place with our first item, a look at global literature...
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Amazon Music hits 55 million global subscribers. You can’t put the subscription genie back in the bottle
The big surprise from Amazon this week is not the fact that the company now has 55 million...
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“Publishers laugh all the way to the bank” as India’s Chennai Book Fair sees 1.3 million visitors spent $2.8 million on books. BAPASI prepares to embrace online bookselling
The Chennai Book Fair in South India has just closed its doors, having clocked 1.3 million...
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India and Asia “realising the wealth of opportunities available in the Arab World”
The Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT Abu Dhabi) participated in the 28th New Delhi...
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As publishers look the other way, Hopster joins the video operators that understand Africa’s half billion internet user digital-first potential
Africa starts the new decade with substantially over 520 million people online. 522 million was...
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In Zimbabwe pirate booksellers are raking in the cash from “desperate parents” as publishers and booksellers struggle. A multi-agency solution is needed
Piracy is a problem everywhere, but especially so in the less stable emerging markets of Africa,...
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Bodour Al Qasimi to deliver keynote speech to open debate on Arab book market data tracking at UAE’s Emirates Airlines LitFest
Taking place at Al Amwaj, InterContinental, in Dubai Festival City, Event No. 110 on Thursday 6...
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Brazil book market down 9.2% by volume, 7% by revenue, but what isn’t monitored means the bigger picture may not be so gloomy
Gfk’s summary of the 2019 Brazilian book trade in 2019 at first glance makes depressing reading,...
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Big Bad Wolf heads to the Philippines. 2 million books in a 24/7 11-day mega-sale
The Big Bad Wolf events in Myanmar and Cambodia are both set to finish today. We know that 50,000...
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Netherlands book market grew 2.1 % in 2019 despite fewer books sold
The Dutch book market grew 2.1% in revenue terms last year, reports the Dutch trade journal...
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320,000 visitors at Qatar’s Doha International Book Fair bought almost a quarter million books
Many of the Arab book fair organisers have an excellent understanding of the value of social...
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