Category: Ibero-America
Panama International Book Fair will be virtual this year. Last year it attracted over 100,000 visitors
“Read about us” is the theme of this year’s FIL Panama, scheduled for August,...
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26th São Paulo Biennial postponed until 2022 as Brazil’s Covid-19 crisis worsens
Alternating with Rio de Janeiro, the São Paulo Book Fair is Brazil’s biggest literary event, and...
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The Santo Domingo Virtual International Book Fair is underway in the Dominican Republic
While I’m struggling here in West Africa with internet connectivity, as the irregular TNPS...
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Mapping the New Normal: “The digital book will occupy a special place” at Venezuela’s Caracas International Book Fair in November
With the 16th Caracas International Book Fair (FILVEN) still six months away, hopes are that at...
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Mexico book market plummets 88.2% amid pandemic. Mexican publishing reinvents itself digitally to save the day
The latest data on the Mexican book market, as reported to El Economista by Nielsen Bookscan...
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Peru’s Lima Int. Book Fair the latest coronavirus casualty to head online as global publishing discovers there’s more to digital than ebooks
The announcement this past week that the Lima International Book Fair would not be going ahead in...
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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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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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