While western publishing parties, redux: Pakistan’s Islamabad Museum Book Fair opens Christmas Day
It cannot be stressed strongly enough that the global publishing industry is just that: global....
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Dubai’s International Content Market expects deals worth $200 million as Spies In Disguise prepares to launch in Arabic this Christmas Eve
Saudi hip-hop artist Qusai is voicing over the Will Smith role in the English-language original of...
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StreetLib partners with Italy’s Association of Independent Publishers
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib...
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NetGalley Advanced arrives in UK, France and Germany nine months after US launch
When it comes to getting new books noticed in the digital age, advance copies sent out to trusted...
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Could HarperCollins UK’s experiment with Kindle Unlimited pave the way to a Storytel UK launch in the new decade?
With an unspecified number of “hundreds” of backlist titles being put into Amazon’s Kindle...
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TNPS is 2 years old today!
Hard to believe, but it was two years ago today that TNPS was unleashed upon an unsuspecting...
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Bookbeat beats forecast, topping 200,000 subscribers. Revenues up 126%. And a promising start in the Netherlands
With its recent 24-country expansion still too new to have had any impact on the numbers, Bookbeat...
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Technophobic rants about how digital is destroying the publishing industry have no place in the brave new world of the 2020s
An Op-Ed in an Argentine journal this past week raised some issues and challenges about the future...
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Jo Nesbø heads UK’s bestselling translated fiction list in 2018
Brexit may be the daily headline in the UK right now, but British readers still like their...
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13-year-old Kenyan girl the youngest in the final running for the Afro Young Adult writing contest
Given the shortage of YA fiction for African readers, the Goethe Institute has been supporting a...
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StreetLib launches digital publishing portals in 20 African countries in February roll-out
For anyone who missed it, StreetLib began the New Year by launching digital portals for authors...
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Lessons for book publishers as Jewish-American journal Forward abandons print editions to go digital only
The Jewish-American journal Forward has just announced that it will print its last edition this...
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