Category: S.E. Asia
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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Book Expo Thailand “drawing huge interest” with in-person event
It’s not clear if the results of the March online event informed Pubat’s decision to...
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Mapping the New Normal: Indonesia International Book Fair launches online Sept. 28 in the world’s fourth largest country by internet users
“IIBF Virtual 2020 opens the door for a new definition of bookstores, namely the online...
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Philippines: Manila International Book Fair rescheduled as online event in November
With 79 million people online the Philippines is on par with Germany as an internet nation, and...
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Singapore Book Awards 2020 held online. Dedicated awards for Best Ebook, Best Audiobook and Best Digital Marketing. Cookery book takes the main prize
A cookery book takes the big prize at this year’s Singapore Book Awards, held online this year...
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Mapping the New Normal: As Big Bad Wolf announces its debut Thailand online sale, global publishing faces a watershed moment
Such demand for English-language books in one-city events where prospective visitors are limited...
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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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