As reported here at TNPS last week, the world’s biggest book sale, the Big Bad Wolf, debuted in the Philippines, marking the start of a ten country tour.
As well as Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and now the Philippines, it seems the Big Bad Wolf also has Bangladesh, Dubai, Korea and Taiwan in its sights.leaving just one unidentified country for the 2018 agenda.
UPDATE: it looks like Iran is the final country for 2018.
This will be the first year Big Bad Wolf has stepped outside SE Asia
The news comes in a follow-up report on the on-going Philippines Big Bad Wolf event from Business Inquirer –
where conversation with Big Bad Wolf co-founder Andrew Yap revealed that the Big Bad Wolf events have together sold a total of more than 30 million books.
Just a short post on this today, but I’ll be back to consider the wider implications in a near-future post, looking at what this means for the global markets as these avalanches of cheap reading, mostly in English, stimulate demand for books in countries Amazon has no interest in.
And no less importantly what it means for the remaindered books market in the countries these books are being sourced from.
What’s the date for Thailand and where, please? Thanks.
The 2018 dates have not been announced yet, but last year the Thai BBW was in August, and likely to be around the same time this year.
Bangkok – preview 9/8 sales period 10/8 -20/8
When is the bbw coming to Taiwan? So excited for this.
No dates yet, Sheryll, but we’ll be reporting the news as soon as we hear more.
Taiwan – preview 16/8 sales 17/8 – 27/8
When will be the Big Bad Wolf big sale here in Dubai? Thanks x
No dates as yet, Anne. I’ll cover the news as soon as I hear it.
14th – 30th Oct 2018
@ Dubai Studio City
What is your official website and contact email id @bigbadwolf???
Bangladesh??? Really? When ? Tell me it’s not a mistake and I’m not seeing it wrong!
All we know so far is it’s on the list for this year. Big Bad Wolf prefer to keep details quiet until the official announcement a month before the event starts.