Industry News Round-Up 26 March 2020
A round-up of key industry news in these challenging times. Apologies if the linked reports for...
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Category: Ibero-America
Argentina’s Buenos Aires Int. Book Fair postponed. PRH sets the ball rolling for USA’s Book Expo America cancellation
The announcement that Penguin Random House has pulled out of book Expo America will surprise...
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Storytel Brazil partners with Bookwire to expand Storytel’s ebook catalogue as 2020 shapes up to be the year of digital subscription
Sweden-based Storytel launched in Brazil at end 2019 with an impressive catalogue of audiobooks,...
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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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Wonder Woman, Shazam, Star Wars, Godzilla… For the latest from the US comic and sci-fi fantasy film scene look no further than… Brazil, home of the world’s biggest comic con
I often talk here about a Global New Renaissance, and this week we’ve seen a clear example of that...
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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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IPA signs deal with Latin American and Caribbean publishing organisation CERLALC as it expands its global focus on the emerging markets
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has this month signed an MoU with the...
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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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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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