Million-subscriber digital books service Scribd offers enhanced localised presence in Mexico, with 60,000 Spanish titles
Despite being one of the oldest subscription services for digital books, Scribd rarely makes the...
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Category: Ibero-America
Brazil’s audiotainment streaming service Ubook gets $5 million new funding prior to IPO. Plans new acquisitions spree and Oceania expansion
Describing itself as Latin America’s largest streaming audiotainment platform, Ubook has just...
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Wattpad’s Latin America partnership is a reminder of the global digital reading phenomenon beyond the ebook, that goes untracked by Nielsen and BookStat, and ignored by most publishers
This past week Wattpad announced a partnership with Brazil’s Wise Entertainment, described by...
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Brazil’s H1 book exports soared 160% and rights exports 70% as publishers embrace global opportunities
“Brazilian Publishers” is a trade organisation set up in 2008 by the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL)...
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Marvel Avengers comic banned at Brazil’s Rio book fair because of a gay kiss
Avengers: The Children’s Crusade, published between 2010-12 in the US, has been available in...
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Amid newly found stability and hope in the Brazilian book market, the Rio Biennial expects 600,000 visitors to buy 5.5 million books in 10 days
August has seen yet another stable month for book sales in Brazil, despite the on-going bankruptcy...
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Storytel to launch in Colombia September 1 as Storytel’s Latin America strategy takes shape
It may be run from Mexico, but in a few days time Storytel will formally launch in Colombia, its...
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Chile’s 30th International Children’s and YA Book Fair prepares for kick off
If it’s August it must be time for Chile’s FILIJ – from the Spanish Feria del Libro Infantil y...
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High Demand. Low Supply. Brazil’s publishers talk TransMedia at the BIG Festival. Other emerging market publishers would do well to take note
The BIG Festival has not long wound up in Brazil (June 26-30) and participating publishers, led by...
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Arabic, Chinese and Nordic languages in the running for the 2nd Reading Colombia selection as publishers target the international book markets
Submissions are about to close for the second Reading Colombia, a joint project of the Ministry of...
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Peru’s 6th Cusco International Book Fair set for August launch with indigenous languages the theme
FIL Cusco has opened calls for participants in the 6th incarnation of its international book fair,...
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The art of the book fair – Guatemala
Regulars here will know I’m a sucker for book fair art, and never more so than when it...
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