India – Kalinga Literary Festival Book Awards Announces Longlisted Titles in English and Hindi
The festival is recognised as one of the largest literary events globally, attracting over half a million attendees over four days.
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India – Assam Book Fair Clocks 500,000 Visitors, $842,000 Sales
We are at the height of the South Asia book fair season, and India is wall-to-wall literary events as usual.
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India Briefing – Vijayawada Book Festival concludes
500,000 visitors spent $600,000 at Vijayawada last year.
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India Briefing – Historical novels and manga a huge hit at Chennai Book Fair
“We were not even aware of manga until last year, when many people came requesting them. Now about 85% of our sales are in manga.”
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Will the new Chennai International Book Fair provide the digital boost India’s publishing industry needs?
Actions speak larger than words of course, so we must wait a few weeks to find out just what the...
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India’s Kolkata IBF postponed. Publishers “face starvation” with no digital safety net in a country of 755 million internet users
One might excuse the digital resistance for their reluctance to move with the times given India is...
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India’s Chennai Book Fair expects upwards of 1 million visitors in January
Publishers outside India will largely be looking the other way, mostly oblivious to this huge...
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India’s online Delhi Book Fair expects more than 300,000 visitors this September
While the Delhi events organisers understand the potential of digital, the Kolkata organisers seem...
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With 749 million online, the Virtual New Delhi World Book Fair is a watershed moment in India’s digital transition
India has 437 million more people online than the USA. Against such a background it seems hard to...
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India: 39th Agartala Book Fair to be held in Tripura in February as Kolkata Int. Book Fair delayed until June
A June Kolkata fair pre-supposes the pandemic will be under a semblance of control by then, but as...
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“Publishers laugh all the way to the bank” as India’s Chennai Book Fair sees 1.3 million visitors spent $2.8 million on books. BAPASI prepares to embrace online bookselling
The Chennai Book Fair in South India has just closed its doors, having clocked 1.3 million...
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India's New Delhi World Book Fair attracted over 1 million visitors this year
Details are still emerging, but a press release from the 2019 New Delhi World Book Fair this week...
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