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Tag: China book market
China’s 1 billion internet users underpin the Beijing International Book Fair this year
With one billion internet users it’s no surprise that China is ahead of the game. Publishers...
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Be afraid. Be just a tiny bit afraid. TikTok owner ByteDance targets 3-fold growth in 2021
One thing we all need to understand is that AI-produced content doesn’t have to be perfect to be...
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Global internet users edge towards 5 billion, and 1 billion of them will be in China
…We can safely say it’s 5 billion, give or take, and it’s not rocket science to...
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As children’s audio booms in China, the OUP says “China is now one of our fastest-growing and most strategically important markets”
The Oxford University Press picked up 400,000 paying subscribers for an audio series offered on...
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Mapping the New Normal: China’s Smart Beijing Int. Book Fair sets the bar for Frankfurt with 5G, AR, VR and a year-round Smart Rights Link
Publishers and agents will have access to a Smart Rights Link that will be available all year...
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China has more than 70,000 bookstores, fuelling the prospect that China is now the world’s largest book market
Last week the China Bookstore Conference released its latest figures, showing that there are more...
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The 33rd Beijing Book Fair set for January
Running 9-11 January 2020, the 33rd Beijing Book Fair will be held in the capital’s China...
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UAE’s Emirates Publishers Association debuts at 7th Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair
The Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair has quickly risen to be the pre-eminent children’s...
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Alibaba nets $1 bn in 68 seconds. Beats Amazon’s last quarter revenue in one day. Publishers should be asking themselves just how big the China book market might be
First the numbers. Alibaba Group, one of many Chinese e-commerce firms that are referred to as...
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Foreign books sales in Romania; the origins of Vietnam’s alphabet; invisible book fairs in China and Kurdistan
We Start The Day Global today in Romania, where BooksExpress.Ro, a Romania book store specialising...
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320,000 visitors. 6,000 copyright agreements. 5G author holograms. Beijing’s 26th Int. Book Fair hailed a success and a gateway to Asia
The fun is over and the reckoning begins. The 26th Beijing International Book Fair was by all...
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