Is the “digital devil” here to stay?
India has 755 million people online, second only to China. That’s more than double the USA’s...
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Category: India
India – Hybrid Kolkata Int. Book Fair breaks records with $3 million sales. 3.5 million online visitors outnumber footfall, but digital gets no credit
The big question,: will the Kolkata Fair organisers take digital seriously in 2023 and give the...
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India – Chennai Book Fair clocks 1.5 million visitors, sells books worth $1.6 million. Kolkata on target for 2 million visitors
Kolkata has for the longest time resisted digital options, as TNPS regulars will know, but this...
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India’s Kolkata Int. Book Fair confirmed for Feb 28 despite 800 daily Covid fatalities
Two missed years have severely impacted Kolkata publishers who rely on the event for a substantial...
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Amazon is closing Westland, the Indian publishing company it acquired in 2016. What will happen to its catalogue and authors?
Amazon’s latest triumph of hope over experience comes to an end with the slow realisation that the...
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India’s Kolkata IBF postponed. Publishers “face starvation” with no digital safety net in a country of 755 million internet users
One might excuse the digital resistance for their reluctance to move with the times given India is...
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India: “a very good year”, “extraordinary”, “best ever” – or “publishers facing starvation”. A tale of two publishing strategies (spoiler, one didn’t involve digital)
One might excuse the digital resistance for their reluctance to move with the times given India is...
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600,000 at Karachi Int. Book Fair as New Delhi World Book Fair postponed
The National Book Trust confirmed many major India-based publishers including Penguin Random House...
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India’s Chennai Book Fair expects upwards of 1 million visitors in January
Publishers outside India will largely be looking the other way, mostly oblivious to this huge...
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India’s Jaipur Literature Festival will be hybrid in 2022, and free online access globally
The world’s biggest literature festival will be a hybrid event with in-person action for those...
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Amazon-owned Audible rolls out unlimited subscription in 6th market, India… and counting
The concern for publishers should be that at some point Amazon will simply shift all its markets...
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Start the Day Global – essential industry reading from around the world
As the monsoon season draws to a close here in West Africa hopes rise that TNPS can get back on...
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