Tag: Ibero-America book market
Mexico – Falling school text book orders precipitate a more than 20% book market crash
Mexico’s publishing industry highlights the risks of over-reliance on de facto government subsidies.
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One month until the 27th São Paulo Biennial
This year’s theme, “Those who read make great friends,” really sends out the right message that books are to be enjoyed, not rote-memorised to pass an exam.
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Brazil book sales and revenue tumbled in 2023
“There was talk that only an end-of-year miracle. It didn’t happen.” Nielsen...
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Mexico – FIL Guadalajara pulls in 857,000 visitors, buoyed by interest in the Spanish-speaking US market
The number of US librarians was up on previous events, to meet growing supply from publishers...
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Brazil – 2024 Bahia Book Biennial dates announced
We are talking about the book as a starting or ending point, from a transversal approach with the...
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Peru – Lima International Book Fair (FIL LIMA) clocks 430,000 visitors that spent $5 million
Sadly the event has yet to return to its pre-pandemic glory. In 2019 FIL Lima clocked 590,000...
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Colombia – Bogota International Book Fair returns in April. Will it attract 600,000+ visitors once more?
This year there will be 13 dedicated Professional Conferences among the 2,000 cultural events...
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Costa Rica International Book Fair returns in person this month after two years virtual
BOOK FAIR NEWS IN BRIEF August 26 through September 4 will see FIL Costa Rica return to in-person...
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Chile’s Santiago International Book Fair will be online and free again this year
Virtual means reaching new audiences hitherto disenfranchised by the old...
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How bold will Editorial Planeta be in the non-Amazon markets with the new Bookwire distribution deal?
For lucrative non-Amazon Ibero-American digital markets like Argentine, Colombia and beyond there...
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Bookwire Brazil’s Bok2 acquisition reflects POD’s growing role in the global book markets that publishers should be studying carefully
POD is an exciting prospect for the global book markets and will come into its own in this coming...
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Colombia’s pandemic-driven online book sales boom
Does that mean print is stil king? Of course, but what really matters is how consumers will...
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