Kenya’s Publishers Face Parliamentary Deposit Mandate
Kenya’s 2025 Bill adds Parliament to legal deposit requirements. The UK, US, Canada and many countries have similar mandatory submission rules for national libraries.
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Category: Kenya
eKitabu Launches Children’s Imprint: Redefining African Publishing from Kenya to the World
Kenya’s eKitabu launches Maua Books, a new children’s imprint. After award-winning Mvua Press & inclusive KSL audio/theatre innovations, they redefine African publishing.
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Kenya Publishers Association Urges Action Against Counterfeit Textbooks
The proliferation of counterfeit items, including kamusi, dictionaries, readers, textbooks, and set books, significantly harms the publishing industry and the broader economy. This illegal activity leads to financial losses for publishers, tax evasion, and economic sabotage.
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Kenya – Soma Nami Books’ African Book Fair kicks off August 6.
Soma Nami, derived from a Swahili phrase meaning “Read with Me,” is a women-owned and operated Pan-African bookstore based in Nairobi. It was founded by Muthoni Muiruri and Wendy Njoroge.
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Kenya – Nairobi IBF rights fair redux
All told, there are over 600 million Africans online in 2023, and around the world a total of 5...
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Kenya – Nyrobi Book Fest fuels Africa’s self-publishing boom as regular publishers look the other way
African books should be gathering readers, not gathering dust in dark corners of unvisited shelves...
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Kenya – Self-Publishers welcome at the Nairobi International Book Fair
But Kenya is among the more advanced digital nations in Africa, with 47 million people online...
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NABU digital reading app launches in Kenya with free content in English and Kiswahili
“Building a bridge to equality, one mother tongue at a time.” Based in New York and with offices...
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Celebrating English and Portuguese literature, the first Macondo Literary Festival is set for September in Kenya
Named after the fictional town in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, “a...
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StreetLib-TNPS launch "Publish Africa – the digital advantage". Bi-weekly B2B insights into Africa's publishing transition
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard, and while TNPS is not a...
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In advance of the IPA Africa Regional Seminar StreetLib announces plans for a Pan-African Digital Library Hub
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard, and while TNPS is not a...
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“Reaching the World Book Market through Effective Book Distribution Networks” is the Ghana International Book Fair’s 2019 theme as Google opens an AI facility in Accra
Global publishing is a holistic affair and increasingly tech-driven at every level. The news that...
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