Category: India
India’s Vice President calls for a library in every village. That will never happen. But there is an elegant alternative
The scorching summer temperatures are once again behind us in India, and the vibrant Indian book...
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India’s Pratham Books “Doubles the Fun” as it marks International Literacy Day with its annual One Day, One Story event
September 8 is International Literacy Day, and around the world events are happening to mark the...
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India’s Madurai Book Fair expects 300,000 visitors to buy 1.5 million books. Just another quiet India book fair…
The 14th annual Madurai Book fair is underway in India, running through until September 9....
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Penguin Random House India to publish 12 new titles in English from Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen
Ranging from autobiographical writings to essays, fiction, short stories, and poetry, Taslima...
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India’s StoryWeaver introduces first comic book as platform exceeds 15,000 titles in 200 languages
Part of India’s Pratham Books, StoryWeaver is the largest of a number of open-source platforms...
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Coimbature Book Festival attracts 125,000 visitors and sells $218,000 of books amid claims social media and smartphones are destroying the reading habit
The fifth Coimbatore Book Festival has run its course and once again the nonsense talked about how...
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Partition, privilege and a Pakistani cop making it big as a crime novelist. Start The Day Global in South Asia
We start the day global today in South Asia, with a look at the literary scene in India and...
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India’s youngest librarian. Bookboats in Sweden, Norway and, sadly no longer, in Finland
We Start The Day Global today with a look at floating libraries in Scandinavia and a free public...
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India’s Coimbatore Book Fair launches amid more nonsense about how social media and smartphones are killing the reading habit. It really is time publishers took the blinkers off
Summer is a quiet time in the Indian book fair scene, with the mega-events that attract millions...
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The India book market remains “a giant in slumber” as new taxes hit imports amid rising paper prices
In an ill-considered move aimed at protecting the domestic publishing industry, the Indian...
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OverDrive’s Summer Read incentivises kids to read in the summer break, but elsewhere some stubbornly insist if it’s not ink on paper it’s not real reading
Teachers invariably view the long summer break from school with mixed feelings. A chance to relax...
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Airtel Africa’s $1 billion London IPO holds promise for Africa’s publishing industry
When it comes to identifying publishing opportunities in the emerging African markets one can do...
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