Category: United Arab Emirates
Sharjah Publishers Club shows Arab publishers the power of social media to engage audiences and advance book sales
The focus is on getting Arab publishers to widely recognise what an elite few already know – that...
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Mapping the New Normal: As Big Bad Wolf counts down its 20 million book online debut in Singapore publishers need to look beyond the remaindered titles and grasp the opportunity
English-language titles can be in huge demand if prices are appropriate to local market...
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Mapping the New Normal: Sharjah Book Authority launches virtual discussion platform ‘Publishers Club’ in UAE
Sharjah Book Authority uses Zoom to offer a digital platform for Arab publishers as Covid-19...
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Abu Dhabi Media partners with magazine subscription service Magzter to expand digital reach in the Arab markets
Abu Dhabi Media is focussed on innovating traditional formats with digital and video-first content...
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Online book and ebook store Al Manhal launches in UAE with 90,000 titles. “The world’s largest Arabic online bookstore”
There’s room for confusion with the launch of a new online bookstore in the UAE, which claims to...
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UAE’s Sharjah International Book Fair will go ahead Nov 4-14. All Exhibitor spaces sold. But 2 million visitors is unlikely this year
As the biggest territorial Middle East book event (Cairo attracts more visitors but is in North...
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award hosts seminar exploring digital publishing and the “the never-before-seen emergence of ‘subscription culture’ in the Arab world”
Titled “Building a Digital Ecosystem for Knowledge”, the seminar was moderated by Saeed Hamdan Al...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish MENA #9 is now available
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Middle East North Africa authors...
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2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award is open for submissions
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, often called the Arab Nobel Prize, is actually nine awards, each...
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners announced. Will receive their awards via livestream April 16
Literary awards don’t get much bigger than the Sheikh Zayed Book Award. Each winner will collect...
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UAE’s Sharjah Public Libraries to give 3 months free global access to 6 million digital titles as world locks down
Details are sparse as this post goes live but Sharjah Public Libraries in the United Arab Emirates...
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award winners to be announced next month despite cancellation of the Abu Dhabi Book Fair
If we needed proof that the coronavirus crisis will not fade simply because of summer’s warmer...
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