Tag: Qatar book market
Qatar’s Doha International Book Fair: To Be Largest Ever. Premiering Professional Literary Exchange Programme
For the first time, the fair will launch a Professional Literary Exchange Programme, designed to foster international publishing rights deals and translation collaborations.
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Qatar seems to wilfully misunderstand books and technology. They work together, not against one another
Most of history’s civilisations rose, flourished and fell without a book in sight, and when books finally became a thing, many books were a means to oppress and deliver destruction, not to build. “Mein Kampf”, anyone?
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Qatar – Doha International Book Fair clocks 300,000 visitors – 10% of the population – inc. 15,000 children
For comparison, Frankfurt would need to pull in 8.4 million visitors and London 6.8 million...
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Qatar – 32nd Doha International Book Fair set for June 12-21. But will it be fun?
As I write this, we don’t know the detail of the #DIBF23 programme, and I’d...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up #2
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it...
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Qatar’s first Ramadan Book Fair underway as Arab book fair season attracts millions in Q1 2022
It will be after the summer that we begin to put together exactly how big is the book fair...
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Qatar, Oman and Iraq Int. Book Fairs announce 2022 dates, but all too often there is a narrow focus on what reading is for that does publishing no favours
The message from so many emerging market publishing industry events is clear: reading – and by...
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Start the Day Global – essential industry reading from around the world
As the monsoon season draws to a close here in West Africa hopes rise that TNPS can get back on...
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Start the Day Global: Argentina, Qatar, Greece, Israel, Sri Lanka
Publishing news in brief from around the world. Greece / Qatar Greece will participate in the Doha...
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Qatar National Library joins Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services
“The treasures contained in our Library, its content, its modernity, its advanced...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish MENA # 10 is hitting in-boxes about now
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Middle East North Africa authors...
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320,000 visitors at Qatar’s Doha International Book Fair bought almost a quarter million books
Many of the Arab book fair organisers have an excellent understanding of the value of social...
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