Category: Global Publishing
PRK UK’s new centralised rights; B&N Education’s poor quarter; Hachette UK’s Changing the Story Day; PRH UK’s Xmas Gift site
A quick glance at some top publishing stories from the industry trade journals. PRH UK unveils...
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400,000 expected at Karachi Int. Book Fair but global publishers still treat Pakistan as a publishing backwater. Can digital revive Pakistan’s publishing fortunes?
One might think a country of 204 million people, with English as an official language, would be a...
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Ebooks and audiobook subscription service Nextory launches in Austria and Switzerland. Nextory now in 6 countries
Back in October the Sweden-based ebook and audiobook subscription service launched in Denmark, and...
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As Macmillan pulls out of Australia’s education sector, former staff launch a new publishing house to fill the gap
It was back in August that Macmillan announced it was winding down its presence in the Australian...
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Mediacorp and Wattpad partner to develop a Wattpad series for Singapore TV
Wattpad has long since been active in the Philippines TV arena, but today comes news Wattpad has...
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Audiobooks will outsell ebooks in the UK in 2020, says a new report. Or will they?
“Readers are swapping their Kindles for headphones,” begins a post in the UK’s The Times,...
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Smashwords launches “presales” – not to be confused with pre-orders – and for first time patents its tech innovation
In the battle to stand out in the ever more competitive US indie author aggregator arena the key...
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Brazil’s São Paulo Uni Book Party sells books worth $4.5 million despite lower turnout of “only” 80,000
With the Brazilian publishing headlines dominated by the on-going woes of the country’s big...
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Dr. Shashi Thardoor and Sudha Murty to debate the influence of Indian literature in driving social change at the 2019 Penguin Annual Lecture
Here in West Africa we’re still struggling with the failure of the Senegal-Gambia spur of the ACE...
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PRH India acquires children’s and YA publisher Duckbill Books
Founded in 2012, Duckbill Books was crowned Publisher of the Year 2019 at the Publisher Next...
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One third of longlist for the 14th Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Arabic literature are from Morocco
No fewer than 411 titles were submitted for the annual Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the most...
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The 650th anniversary of the Azerbaijani poet skinned alive; Helsinki’s public library boom; Vietnam’s book stall in South Korea; and from Serbia, BUM! GRRR!! ŠKRIP!!! STRIP!!!!
We start the day global today in Ukraine, where a poetry collection from one of Azerbaijan’s...
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