“See you in Sharjah!”
Sharjah goes from strength to strength, as the centre of global publishing gravity inexorably shifts east following the collapse of Book Expo NY.
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Tag: Bodour Al Qasimi
Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone unveils exclusive packages for publishers as SIBF comes of age
No wonder then that Sharjah has been able to, from the early stages of publishing’s digital...
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Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective Revisited
This is one of those awkward reports where the opener plays to western stereotypes of...
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Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective
Just maybe the IPA could bring the digital distributors to their senses, and maybe too knock sense...
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Meet the Lebanese expat who sold books to young UAE royals. And a personal memoir involving suitcases of books
As my travel horizons widened I found my suitcases of English-language books could open doors and...
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Egypt’s “High-Tech” Cairo Int. Book Fair clocked 91,000 visitors and 44.5 million online hits on first day
This year the Cairo event finally embraced digital fully, with a hybrid in-person and online fair,...
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As Al Qasimi’s Sharjah prepares to take publishing’s centre stage, private visitors outnumbered trade at hybrid Frankfurt 2021 for first time
The torch for the future of the global publishing industry will be carried not by Frankfurt, and...
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A hybrid Nigeria Int. Book Fair puts women centre stage, but how close is Nigeria to becoming a digital-publishing nation?
There is a huge gap in the market for a major retail and/or subscription platform to offer an...
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IPA elects women to President and Vice President posts for 2021-22
But the new Vice President-elect will have raised a few eyebrows, not because Karine Pansa is not...
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A publishing double for Indonesia: Jakarta to host the 33rd IPA Congress in 2022 as it bids for UNESCO World Book Capital 2022
Indonesia stands to pull off a publishing double in 2022. Jakarta is to host the 2022 IPA Congress...
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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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Bodour Al Qasimi to deliver keynote speech to open debate on Arab book market data tracking at UAE’s Emirates Airlines LitFest
Taking place at Al Amwaj, InterContinental, in Dubai Festival City, Event No. 110 on Thursday 6...
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