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 – Pune Book Festival Statistics Questioned
“Achieving such sales would mean the Pune Book Festival has outperformed even the New Delhi World Book Fair and the International Kolkata Book Fair—events globally renowned for their scale and impact” – Pranav Gupta.
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India’s Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi Honoured with the 2024 Asom Prakashan Parishad Literary Award
Thongchi’s recognition by the Asom Prakashan Parishad highlights the rich tapestry of Indian literature and underscores the importance of regional literary contributions on the global stage.
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India – 27th Kochi International Book Festival underway. 8th Kochi Literature Festival set for 4th-8th. 100,000 visitors expected
India remains, for TNPS, the most exciting publishing prospect on the planet.
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India’s Amdavad Book Fair morphs into the Ahmedabad International Book Festival
The choice of name, styling itself as a book festival rather than an international book fair suggests a pragmatic approach towards the event’s future, with focus on readers over rights and the industry’s needs.
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India – Tamil children’s books to be translated to other Indian languages
India is at just 52% internet penetration, meaning around 630 million Indians have not yet begun using the internet. But that’s to miss the exciting point that anywhere between 750 million to 800 million Indians are already online.
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Archie Comics a hit in India. Latin America next?
“It isn’t simple so much as it is elegant: to localize an internationally recognized intellectual property to bring in more fans.”
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India Briefing – Kolkata Int. Book Fair expands small-publisher access
Last year the fair pulled in 2.6 million visitors that spent the USD equivalent of $4 million.
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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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8 million people will spend $10 million on books at India’s incredible book fairs Jan-Mar
The thing with India is, it’s a big country with over a billion people, which means big book fairs can be happening at the same time. And I do mean big.
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India – the Assam Guwahati Book Fair is underway, and will run through until January 9 2024
The global markets do not care about our western publishing calendar. It’s business as usual...
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