South Africa – Comic-Con Cape Town debuts April 27
Comic-Con Cape Town is a debut event, and it remains to be see if Cape Town can attract fewer, as...
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Category: Africa
TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up #3
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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On March 13 Morocco opens for online applications for publisher support
If the Moroccan government is serious about developing the publishing industry then it needs to...
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The Casablanca Int. Book Fair will again be in Rabat. This time in June
The first and so far only Rabat incarnation in 2022, it transpires, was heavily financed by the...
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Egypt – the Egyptian General Book Authority has released its 2022 summary
Hopefully we’ll see the EGBA – the most active Arab publishing organisation after the...
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Ghana announces 15% increase in the prices of books
So far book prices in the mature western markets have not been consumer-impacted by the global...
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Embrace digital, Nigeria’s Copyright Commission tells publishers
For Nigerian publishers it’s the classic chicken and egg conundrum: Readers do not read digital...
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Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective Revisited
This is one of those awkward reports where the opener plays to western stereotypes of...
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Big Bad Wolf debuts in Africa. Tanzania the first step. Kenya next?
This venture is being supported by the Sharjah Book Authority in keeping with the 2019 agreement...
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Can Africans Write Millennial Fiction?
What will it take to make publishers join the dots and take this incredible market of 590 million...
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Egypt – 2023 Cairo International Book Fair dates announced
The Cairo International Book Fair is usually the biggest book fair in the world by visitor...
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Morocco chips in $10 million subsidy to avoid school text book prices rising 30%
As a global recession looms Morocco’s $10 million subsidy to textbook publishers seeks to keep...
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