Category: India
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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With 749 million online, the Virtual New Delhi World Book Fair is a watershed moment in India’s digital transition
India has 437 million more people online than the USA. Against such a background it seems hard to...
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India: 39th Agartala Book Fair to be held in Tripura in February as Kolkata Int. Book Fair delayed until June
A June Kolkata fair pre-supposes the pandemic will be under a semblance of control by then, but as...
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India’s Kolkata International Book Fair now most likely for June, but the only guarantee seems to be there won’t be an online event in lieu
In a country of 560 million internet users that ought to come as a surprise, but sadly does not....
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Storytel India starts its fourth year by adding 9th language, Malayalam, to its India content portfolio
For now at least Storytel would appear to have the upper hand in the India audiobook market, while...
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Mapping the new normal: India ebook and audiobook consumption up 50%. 6/10 booklovers expect to buy from bricks & mortar stores. 7/10 will buy online – Nielsen
20% of respondents are reading more print, while 50% are consuming more digital books, with women...
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As the new normal for publishing evolves, Penguin Random House India opens an exclusive ebook store – on Amazon. A smart move in a country of 560 million internet users
When India’s Prime Minister extended one of the world’s harshest national lockdowns to May 3, as...
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“Publishers laugh all the way to the bank” as India’s Chennai Book Fair sees 1.3 million visitors spent $2.8 million on books. BAPASI prepares to embrace online bookselling
The Chennai Book Fair in South India has just closed its doors, having clocked 1.3 million...
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India's New Delhi World Book Fair attracted over 1 million visitors this year
Details are still emerging, but a press release from the 2019 New Delhi World Book Fair this week...
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India: “Going digital only way to save Telugu literature.”
The annual Vijayawada Book Fair has been running since January 3 and winds up today, January 12....
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