Tag: South Asia book market
Revenue disappoints, visitor numbers uncertain at this year’s Bangladesh Ekushey Boi Mela
Did the Dhaka event pull in more than Cairo 2024, which this year clocked a record 4.6 million visitors?
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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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Bangladesh – 7th Non-Fiction Book Fair ends 2023
But something the western publishing industry has done in the past couple of decades is to make an...
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India – 13th Dibrugarh Book Fair underway
Kolkata, which will be back in 2024 as early as January 18, was the fifth largest book fair in the...
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India – Can the 2024 Kolkata International Book Fair beat 2023’s 2.6 million footfall and £4 million book spend?
In terms of visitor numbers, 2023 concludes with Kolkata as the fourth largest fair in the world...
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Digital could help reduce Nepal’s rampant book piracy problem
More often than not, pirated copies are poor quality, and do not represent value for money....
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Indian publishing after the pandemic – “print books have comfortably adapted to digital”
India is only at 54% internet penetration, so the reluctance of some publishers to embrace digital...
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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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Is the “digital devil” here to stay?
India has 755 million people online, second only to China. That’s more than double the USA’s...
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India – Hybrid Kolkata Int. Book Fair breaks records with $3 million sales. 3.5 million online visitors outnumber footfall, but digital gets no credit
The big question,: will the Kolkata Fair organisers take digital seriously in 2023 and give the...
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India – Chennai Book Fair clocks 1.5 million visitors, sells books worth $1.6 million. Kolkata on target for 2 million visitors
Kolkata has for the longest time resisted digital options, as TNPS regulars will know, but this...
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Behind Storytel India’s Tamil app is a bigger picture Amazon’s Audible has yet to see
For the literacy-challenged emerging markets the USP Tellander has latched on to which western...
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