Category: India
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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With 25 million audiobook consumers, India takes third place behind USA and China. Might Storytel be eyeing an acquisition?
Audible and Storytel are the biggest foreign players in the Indian audiobook market, but keep an...
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India’s online Delhi Book Fair expects more than 300,000 visitors this September
While the Delhi events organisers understand the potential of digital, the Kolkata organisers seem...
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Behind Storytel India’s Tamil app is a bigger picture Amazon’s Audible has yet to see
For the literacy-challenged emerging markets the USP Tellander has latched on to which western...
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Byju’s acquires children’s reading platform Epic for $500 million in another seismic shift in the publishing landscape
Overseas capital continues to flood the North America publishing market, entering key digital...
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India’s watershed virtual book fair moment redux. 2.8 million hits from 70 countries
Organisers of the rival Kolkata event, which early on took the decision that hell would freeze...
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