The battle of the giant book fairs
2024 is looking likely to break book fair records around the globe.
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Tag: Cairo International Book Fair
Egypt – 2023 Cairo International Book Fair dates announced
The Cairo International Book Fair is usually the biggest book fair in the world by visitor...
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Egypt’s Opera Book Fair brings books back to the original venue of the Cairo Int. Book Fair, after 30 years
Today the Cairo event holds the record as the world’s largest book fair, typically attracting...
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The world’s biggest book fair postponed until June-July 2021. Egypt’s Cairo Int. Book Fair, that is
Whether things will be better by summer 2021 remains to be seen, but we can safely say the 2021...
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The latest edition of Publish Africa, the StreetLib-TNPS newsletter for Africa’s publishers, is now live
On hold during the early stages of the pandemic, the StreetLib-TNPS newsletter Publish Africa is...
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The biggest book fair in the world is an Arab event in Africa. 3.5 million visitors at Egypt’s Cairo International Book Fair. Publishers look the other way
Not that you’d know it reading the western publishing industry trade journals, but the Cairo...
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Egypt’s Cairo International Book Fair clocks 600,000 visitors in first four days. Book sales up on 2019
Egypt’s Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem, reported back on the first four days of the 14-day...
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Cairo International Book Fair beats USA's biggest book fair visitor numbers in first two days
Last year the Washington National Book Festival clocked a record 200,000 visitors. The Cairo...
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475,000 attended Saudi Arabia's Jeddah International Book Fair. The Arab Renaissance continues
When it comes to judging the potential of the so-called nascent book markets, attendance at book...
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In Egypt calls grow to boycott world’s largest book fair. Cairo Int. Book Fair Director steps up to explain the CIBF’s unpopular relocation
At the best of times the logistics of setting up the world’s biggest book fair are problematic....
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Books, Pyramids and Sun. The world's biggest book fair will be 50 in January. And yes, it's in Egypt
You couldn’t make it up. The world’s biggest book fair is in a part of the world...
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“The mystery of a million book lovers in the modern age.” The BBC shows worrying ignorance of the global book fair scene
In a modern world where, supposedly, no-one reads books anymore because we are all bingeing on...
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