The average American reads 12 books a year. Malaysians read 20 and that’s not enough!
Malaysians read an average of 20 books annually, compared to 15 in 2014. Many countries would be...
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Category: Malaysia
Big Bad Wolf goes hybrid in Malaysia, online in Sri Lanka as demand for English-language books grows. Publishers look the other way
Publishing has for so long managed on the axiom that, “if it just about works, no matter how...
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Mapping the New Normal: Big Bad Wolf goes hybrid per TNPS forecast
Western publishers would do well to look beyond the remaindered books and see the bigger picture....
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Start The Day Global: Bangladesh, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Malaysia and Thailand
Whimsical publishing stories from around the world. Today five post excerpts from Thailand,...
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Big Bad Wolf Malaysia attracts 1.5 million buyers online. Partners with Shopee to extend the online flash sales experiment
It’s been a steep learning curve, but the numbers speak for themselves. Online or off, Big Bad...
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Big Bad Wolf Malaysia will be online in November. 20 million books across 40,000 titles
By now the Big Bad Wolf team have learned lessons from previous online incarnations in Indonesia,...
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Anger in Malaysia as children taught animal cruelty in school books
The verb “to throw”, and its local language equivalents, are illustrated in the book in question...
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Mark Williams At Large: Perspectives on the Publishing Week
As the pandemic enters its second wave, Big 5 publisher Macmillan starts hiring again, raises its...
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Malaysia’s largest magazine publisher looked the other way as digital arrived. When Covid-19 arrived it paid the ultimate price
This past week the coronavirus crisis saw the closure of Malaysia’s largest magazine publisher,...
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Malaysia: 2020-21 UNESCO World Book Capital ceremony postponed due to coronavirus
April should have seen a glorious ceremony in the Malaysian capital as the UAE’s Sharjah...
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The TNPS Week In Review: December 8-14
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a...
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Big Bad Wolf prepares Cambodia debut as it winds down 2019 with 4.5 million books in Malaysia and announces 1 million books to Myanmar in January
It’s been an amazing year for Big Bad Wolf, the export arm of Malaysia bookstore BookXcess, which...
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