320,000 visitors. 6,000 copyright agreements. 5G author holograms. Beijing’s 26th Int. Book Fair hailed a success and a gateway to Asia
The fun is over and the reckoning begins. The 26th Beijing International Book Fair was by all...
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Category: The Future of Publishing
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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International Publishers Association announces line-up for 2nd IPA Africa Seminar in Nairobi
If last year’s inaugural IPA Africa Seminar in Lagos was a much needed wake-up call to a global...
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Chinese bot translates 300-page book from English to Chinese in 30 seconds with 95% accuracy
This is a post that will send shivers down the spines of translators everywhere. First the bad...
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Bodour Al Qasimi lines up for the IPA presidency 2021. Setzer in January. Global publishing’s prospects just got a whole lot brighter
The International Publishers Association met at Frankfurt this week to appoint the next president...
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Four in ten books sold in Sweden are through a subscription service. But might both print and ebooks be the casualties of the great Scandinavian experiment?
Forty percent of books sold in Sweden are through a subscription service. Total book sales revenue...
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Publishing News Round-Up 7 May 2018
It would be impossible to try cover even a fraction of the publishing news that lands on my e-desk...
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As Netflix approaches the global revenue tipping point, publishers need to sit up and take notice
Netflix has beaten expectations yet again, adding another 7.4 million subscribers January through...
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Ten global publishing stories not to be missed. 2 April 2018 collation
The global publishing market has never been more exciting, and every day myriad publishing stories...
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China’s unmanned 24/7 bookstores track customer trajectory to offer book recommendations as booklovers move around the store
While we in the west have been enthralled by Amazon’s move into bricks & mortar bookstores and...
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Beware the future. It’s closer than you think. AI and Publishing
Anyone who thinks AI won’t be able to write literature that’s as good as anything a human can...
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Cyber Monday Amazon’s biggest shopping day ever. But still way behind Alibaba. What future the international Kindle stores?
Cyber Monday 2017 broke records in the US. Amazon claimed it was even bigger than Prime Day, and...
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