A hybrid Nigeria Int. Book Fair puts women centre stage, but how close is Nigeria to becoming a digital-publishing nation?
There is a huge gap in the market for a major retail and/or subscription platform to offer an...
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Category: Africa
Egypt’s hybrid Cairo Int. Book Fair clocks 1.7 million real visitors, 1.6 million online visitors, 225 million online hits, 270,000 virtual tours and 1.5 million online book views
With internet penetration at only 52% it’s easy for publishers to dismiss Egypt as an online...
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Africa has 590 million people online. Here’s the Top 21 Countries for all those publishers looking the other way
What will it take to make publishers join the dots and take this incredible market of 590 million...
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There’s a new kid on the digital books retail and subscription streaming block, but can Legible live up to its own hype?
True global accessibility demands that the books are available where the consumers are and...
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Morocco’s Casablanca Int. Book Fair postponed as Covid-19 tears up the 2021 publishing calendar
Last year the Casablanca International Book Fair attracted over a half million visitors. This year...
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Kubini – Swahili for “imaginary creations” – will be a 9-month-long African comics exhibition in d’Angoulême, France, in 2021
The French connection here should surprise no-one familiar with the book market in France, where...
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Ayobami Adebayo’s “Reste Avec Moi” is Prix Les Afriques 2020 winner
The winning novel, Reste Avec Moi, was first published in English under the title Stay with me...
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Egypt’s Opera Book Fair brings books back to the original venue of the Cairo Int. Book Fair, after 30 years
Today the Cairo event holds the record as the world’s largest book fair, typically attracting...
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The world’s biggest book fair postponed until June-July 2021. Egypt’s Cairo Int. Book Fair, that is
Whether things will be better by summer 2021 remains to be seen, but we can safely say the 2021...
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Shortlist announced for the 2020 African Writers Awards and the Wakini Kuria Award for Children’s Literature
The African Writers Development Trust is an NGO that provides publishing grants, educational...
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NABU digital reading app launches in Kenya with free content in English and Kiswahili
“Building a bridge to equality, one mother tongue at a time.” Based in New York and with offices...
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Netflix targets 500 million subscribers by 2030. Rolls out mobile-only subscription option for Nigeria’s 126 million internet users. Publishers look the other way
“We want to tell amazing stories tailored to different languages, different tastes, and different...
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