Asia Foundation launches Let’s Read Project in Myanmar
Let’s Read is an initiative by the Asia Foundation to bring the joy of reading to children across...
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Category: Social Publishing
IPA and Dubai Cares sign MoU to support African publishing, committing $800k over four years
Dubai Cares will be no stranger to those that follow global education initiatives. Part of the...
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Vietnam’s Unexploded Bombs have killed 40,000. Now 3,000 comic books will help educate kids about the dangers. But could Vietnam do more by digitising?
A common theme in modern-day western children’s publishing is reflecting social issues and...
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Strengthening Aotearoa’s literary landscape – Mātātuhi Foundation to offer writing, reading, literacy grants
New Zealand’s Auckland Writers Festival (AWF), intent on “strengthening Aotearoa’s literary...
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World’s largest collection of Tibetan Buddhist literature is now online
Hat tip to @PaulkBiba for this – the most complete record of the words of the Buddha, plus...
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7 million users in the Philippines as Wattpad’s Tencent-backed Asia plans step up a gear
The Philippines has long been one of Wattpad’s strongholds, but this month comes news from Manila...
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Brazil’s slavery history exposed in graphic novel format
In the dark history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade few can be unaware of the “golden...
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OverDrive supplies the UAE’s first digital library
Back in May Book Expo New York hosted an event titled Reaching the Arab World – the New...
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Storymoja – a book in every hand
Kenya’s Daily Nation weekend lifestyle section carries an interview with Abukakar Adam...
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Tencent moves on Wattpad as Wattpad hits 60 million users. Could Nook be next?
Back in September I ran a post here on Nook’s future, speculating on the possibility Nook...
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OverDrive leads the way with dyslexia-friendly ebooks
What do WB Yeates, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Lynda La Plante, Jules Verne, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Agatha...
Read MoreA million poetry books sold in 2016
It’s a funny old world. Publishing is supposedly on its knees, decimated by digital, attention spans are supposedly shortening by the day and no-one reads any more, and video streaming and other distractions are wiping out...
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