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Ghana announces 15% increase in the prices of books

by Mark Williams | Dec 10, 2022 | Africa, Ghana, Global Publishing | 0 |

So far book prices in the mature western markets have not been consumer-impacted by the global...

Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective Revisited

by Mark Williams | Sep 25, 2022 | Africa, Global Publishing | 1 |

This is one of those awkward reports where the opener plays to western stereotypes of...

Can Africans Write Millennial Fiction?

by Mark Williams | Sep 11, 2022 | Africa, Global Publishing | 0 |

What will it take to make publishers join the dots and take this incredible market of 590 million...

Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective

by Mark Williams | Aug 1, 2022 | Africa, Global Publishing, IPA, Sharjah | 1 |

Just maybe the IPA could bring the digital distributors to their senses, and maybe too knock sense...

Afropolitan Comics: the Online Exhibition. “From South Africa to the Continent”

by Mark Williams | Aug 8, 2020 | Africa, Comics, Global Publishing, South Africa, The global book market | 0 |

Comics are at the crossroads of literature and visual arts – with strong connections to animation...

Start the Day Global – 30 September 2018

by Mark Williams | Sep 30, 2018 | Africa, Awards, Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Nigeria, North America, Publishing News, The global book market, UK, USA | 0 |

South Africa, Canada , the USA, the UK and Nigeria are on the travel map today as we start the day...

"The future of global publishing lies in the emerging markets" – Sheikha Bodour al Qasimi

by Mark Williams | May 16, 2018 | Africa, Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Middle East, Publishing Brief, Sharjah, The global book market, United Arab Emirates | 0 |

In an article in VenturesAfrica today Bodour al Qasimi takes a look at the potential of the...

Micro-aggregators in Africa rise to meet growing demand from authors

by Mark Williams | Nov 11, 2017 | Africa, Aggregators, Amazon, Ebooks, Global Publishing, Kenya, Publishing Brief, Self-Publishing | 1 |

Authors in the “First World” tend nowadays to take for granted that, even if they...

"Nobody is rewarding writers so nobody wants to write" – the state of Nigerian literature

by Mark Williams | Oct 8, 2017 | Africa, Global Publishing, Kenya, Nigeria, Nobel Prize winner | 0 |

“Nobody is rewarding writers so nobody wants to write,” laments Morenike Taire over at Nigeria’s Vanguard, in a discussion about the latest Nobel Prize for literature. Taire continues, “The level of...

Kenya – book sales fall as VAT and piracy bite. Does salvation lie with digital?

by Mark Williams | Oct 2, 2017 | Africa, Kenya | 0 |

The 20th Nairobi International Book Fair wrapped up yesterday after a five-day event themed...

The Mogadishu and Nairobi Book Fairs – Publishing Challenges In Africa

by Mark Williams | Sep 28, 2017 | Global Publishing | 0 |

The Nairobi Book Fair is underway in Kenya this week. It comes hard on the heels of another East...

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Ghana announces 15% increase in the prices of books

Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective Revisited

Can Africans Write Millennial Fiction?

Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective

Afropolitan Comics: the Online Exhibition. “From South Africa to the Continent”

Start the Day Global – 30 September 2018

"The future of global publishing lies in the emerging markets" – Sheikha Bodour al Qasimi

Micro-aggregators in Africa rise to meet growing demand from authors

"Nobody is rewarding writers so nobody wants to write" – the state of Nigerian literature

Kenya – book sales fall as VAT and piracy bite. Does salvation lie with digital?

The Mogadishu and Nairobi Book Fairs – Publishing Challenges In Africa

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