Tag: India book market
India – Can the 2024 Kolkata International Book Fair beat 2023’s 2.6 million footfall and £4 million book spend?
In terms of visitor numbers, 2023 concludes with Kolkata as the fourth largest fair in the world...
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India – Kolkata International Book Fair 2024 dates set for early start to embrace public holidays
Weekends and public holidays see substantial increases in visitor numbers, so the two additional...
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Rise of translated Indian literature
India Today carried an insightful article on translations on the subcontinent. Excerpts:...
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India’s “Festival of Libraries 2023” runs Aug 5-6 in New Delhi
Sadly such divisions and Luddite thinking will continue prevent India from taking its rightful...
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Non-Readers – the Holy Grail of Publishing
The global market of smartphone-owning non-readers potentially dwarfs the traditional...
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HarperCollins India will embrace AI audiobooks – just as soon as the right voice comes along
India is still only at 60% internet penetration, but given that equates to 833 million of...
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India and Bangladesh to hold a joint book fair in Bangladesh in July amid prospects of a Dhaka Int. Book Fair in 2024
But isolated instances aside, we’re still a long way from seeing Bangladeshi, let alone Pakistani,...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up #6
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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India – Bookstores raided by Police. Thousands of pirated print books seized
“During the questioning the shopkeepers revealed that the NCERT books have very nominal margins...
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HarperCollins, why does a $3 ebook produced and sold in India cost $13 in the US?
HarperCollins, is this deliberate obtuseness, unfathomable dumbness or just plain stupidity? 8...
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India – 833 million people online and still “dignitaries” don’t get that a book on a screen is still a book
They would do well to support the myriad book fairs that make India such an exciting publishing...
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India – Confusion over New Delhi World Book Fair numbers as conflicting reports emerge. Could I million be 2 million?
This being India, both numbers are entirely credible, but clearly one or both is inaccurate....
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