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.”
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 15, 2024 | Comics, Film & TV, India | 0 |
“It isn’t simple so much as it is elegant: to localize an internationally recognized intellectual property to bring in more fans.”
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 15, 2024 | Book Fairs, India, South Asia | 0 |
Last year the fair pulled in 2.6 million visitors that spent the USD equivalent of $4 million.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 15, 2024 | Book Fairs, India, South Asia | 0 |
500,000 visitors spent $600,000 at Vijayawada last year.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 15, 2024 | Book Fairs, India, South Asia | 0 |
“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.”
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 7, 2024 | Book Fairs, India, South Asia | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 2, 2024 | Book Fairs, India, South Asia | 0 |
The global markets do not care about our western publishing calendar. It’s business as usual...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jan 2, 2024 | Book Fairs, India | 0 |
300,000 visitors, $240,000 sales. So a pretty middle-range fair by Indian book fair standards. Not...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Nov 30, 2023 | Book Fairs, India, South Asia | 0 |
In terms of visitor numbers, 2023 concludes with Kolkata as the fourth largest fair in the world...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Aug 17, 2023 | India, South Asia | 0 |
Weekends and public holidays see substantial increases in visitor numbers, so the two additional...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Aug 12, 2023 | India, South Asia | 0 |
India Today carried an insightful article on translations on the subcontinent. Excerpts:...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Aug 4, 2023 | Digital Libraries, India, Libraries, South Asia | 0 |
Sadly such divisions and Luddite thinking will continue prevent India from taking its rightful...
Read Moreby Mark Williams | Jul 27, 2023 | Audible, Audiobooks, India | 0 |
The global market of smartphone-owning non-readers potentially dwarfs the traditional...
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