Pakistan – restricted book imports, spiralling prices and economic chaos. Not a good time to be a publisher
It’s the classic digital books chicken and egg conundrum. Publishers do not produce digital...
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Pakistan – No-one is reading! We must publish more books nobody wants to read!
Encourage the public to read for pleasure and they will surely find pleasure in non-fiction as...
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Pakistan’s paper shortage halts text book printing as global paper crisis bites
For countries like Pakistan, that have for so long eschewed any meaningful shift to digital...
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600,000 at Karachi Int. Book Fair as New Delhi World Book Fair postponed
The National Book Trust confirmed many major India-based publishers including Penguin Random House...
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400,000 expected at Pakistan’s Karachi International Book Fair amid a shift to an international focus, but digital embrace not in evidence
In Pakistan, where internet penetration is still at just 44.7%, it’s easy to lose sight of the...
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New publishing house in Pakistan aims to deliver “world-class” but locally-affordable and Pak-orientated textbooks and fiction
World class books, local content is the them behind the launch of a new publishing house in...
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Pakistan has more internet users than the UK, but Pakistan’s first street library opens amid belief that books and digital are separate planets
The good news is Pakistan’s Karachi got its first street library this past week, and it received a...
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While western publishing parties, redux: Pakistan's Islamabad Museum Book Fair opens Christmas Day
It cannot be stressed strongly enough that the global publishing industry is just that: global....
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400,000 expected at Karachi Int. Book Fair but global publishers still treat Pakistan as a publishing backwater. Can digital revive Pakistan’s publishing fortunes?
One might think a country of 204 million people, with English as an official language, would be a...
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While publishers look the other way Big Bad Wolf takes 1 million English-language books to Pakistan
Big Bad Wolf has already shipped millions of English language books this year for its 24/7 11 day...
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Kindle’s Islamabad Children Literature Festival concludes in Pakistan, but no, it was nothing to do with Amazon
When we in the west hear the word kindle we immediately think of ebooks and reading. After...
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600,000 visitors at Pakistan's Karachi IBF, but publishers and IT Minister do not yet see digital as a way forward in a country with more people online than Spain
With visitors averaging 120,000 a day the Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers’ Association (PPBA)...
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