Category: S.E. Asia
Registrations open for 33rd International Publishers Congress
Apologies to those who expect more from TNPS than a press release. Recovery is proving slower than...
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Thailand’s National and International Book Fairs underway as Big Bad Wolf winds up its Bangkok event
The 50th National Book Fair and the 20th Bangkok International Book Fair are still underway in...
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Philippines Manila International Book Fair completes its 2nd online incarnation today
For now the Philippines book market is depressed by the Pandemic and it seems neither domestic nor...
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Publishers take note – Big Bad Wolf virtual sale under way in Philippines, a country with more people online than Germany or UK
The bigger picture still yet to be fully understood, let alone embraced, by most of the industry...
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Storytel Indonesia likely to launch in Q3 with little or no local-language content but a target audience of 196 million internet users
In other Storytel target markets (Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel) Storytel has been able to buy out...
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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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Big Bad Wolf continues its online pivot with second Singapore event
Not much to add to this saga that hasn’t been said before, so this will be a brief item, but...
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Philippines – Manila Virtual Int. Book Fair extended by a full month to meet demand
Scheduled to run 7 days, demand was so great at the online version of the Manila International...
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Big Bad Wolf Indonesia prepares next online sale. Over half a million books sold online on Tokopedia already this year
We don’t know how many online sales Big Bad Wolf has made in total this year, but in Malaysia we...
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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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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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Philippines Senator calls for digitisation of textbooks to ensure students do not have to share books
Will a proposed amendment to the Filipino book laws be enough to kick-start digitisation of the...
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