Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City’s second Book Street inaugurated
The first Vietnam Book Street was opened in Hanoi in 2017 and has over 16 bookstores. Running...
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Tag: SE Asia book market
Iran eyes ASEAN as an 800 million people market at the Indonesian International Book Fair
“Entering Indonesia is entering the ASEAN region, which has a population of about 800...
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The Virtual Philippine International Comics Festival is set to launch
The event is spearheaded by Komiket, a Filipino comics distributor, which explains that the...
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Thailand – Bookfluencers
Our fair this year emphasises the current era of influencers, where individuals or groups hold...
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If only western countries had this kind of govt. support to fight book piracy!
Many publishing professionals in the “civilised west” regard far-flung parts of the...
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Big Bad Wolf Indonesia tour continues
Indonesia may not seem the most likely place to be trying to sell remaindered English-language...
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Philippines Manila International Book Fair completes its 2nd online incarnation today
For now the Philippines book market is depressed by the Pandemic and it seems neither domestic nor...
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Publishers take note – Big Bad Wolf virtual sale under way in Philippines, a country with more people online than Germany or UK
The bigger picture still yet to be fully understood, let alone embraced, by most of the industry...
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Big Bad Wolf tops 3 million online buyers. Second Thailand sale prepped. A watershed moment for global publishing redux
Big Bad Wolf hesitantly ventured online in Indonesia on Tokopedia as the pandemic struck. It then...
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Philippines Senator calls for digitisation of textbooks to ensure students do not have to share books
Will a proposed amendment to the Filipino book laws be enough to kick-start digitisation of the...
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Mapping the New Normal: Indonesia International Book Fair launches online Sept. 28 in the world’s fourth largest country by internet users
“IIBF Virtual 2020 opens the door for a new definition of bookstores, namely the online...
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Thailand’s Bangkok International Book Fair is live online despite real-life cancellation
International book fairs fall broadly into two groups: industry-facing and public-facing, although...
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