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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Category: Singapore
Another nail in Screen Fatigue’s coffin as OverDrive clocks 430 million digital downloads in 2020
Print of course remains king, although bricks & mortar booksellers face existential challenges...
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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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OverDrive demolishes the nonsense that readers have abandoned ebooks for audiobooks as 2019 breaks records for both, adding to uncertainty about Kobo's future
We’ve heard it so many times its hard not to start believing it. Screen fatigue is driving...
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PublishDrive adds Hoopla and STARY's Dreame to its distribution portfolio
At this time of year most western publishing operations are winding down for the Christmas and New...
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Mediacorp and Wattpad partner to develop a Wattpad series for Singapore TV
Wattpad has long since been active in the Philippines TV arena, but today comes news Wattpad has...
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Celebrating its first anniversary, Singapore’s mobile reading app Dreame is another example of the millions of invisible global digital readers outside mainstream publishing
“Show Your Girl Power” is the topic of to a writing competition to mark the successful...
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StreetLib partners with Singapore-based STARY's Dreame and FicFun mobile reading apps
Italy-based digital books distributor and publishing facilitator StreetLib has partnered...
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As Penguin Random House SE Asia goes live, PRH plans just shy of 100 mostly English-language releases this year across the region
A common theme here at TNPS is the much-overlooked demand for English-language content in parts of...
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StreetLib completes January tranche of global expansion. 21 countries on 6 continents
When StreetLib launched The New Publishing Standard in September 2017 we made clear the function...
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Storytel to launch in Singapore in 2019
In marked contrast to Storytel’s usual approach of keeping quiet about new launches until...
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As PRH announces planned expansion into 8 SE Asia countries, TNPS looks at the digital prospects in a region of 380 million internet users
Back in December 2017 TNPS ran with the headline, S.E. Asia online economy growing faster than...
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