Category: Africa
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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Bodour Al Qasimi and the Challenge of African Publishing – a TNPS Personal Perspective
Just maybe the IPA could bring the digital distributors to their senses, and maybe too knock sense...
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Registration opens for hybrid Nigeria International Book Fair
Nigeria and other national publishing events organisers across sub-Saharan Africa would do well to...
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Botswana – Gaborone Book Festival dates announced
One of southern Africa’s biggest publishing events will be hybrid this year. The Gaborone...
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Algiers Int. Book Fair clocks 1.3 million in-person visitors and a digital success too
Running March 24 through 31 the eight day event averaged over 160,000 in-person visitors per day....
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Tunisia – 37th Tunis International Book Fair cancelled for 2022, but no, not because of Covid
The 37th FILT will embrace a “new vision” at a new venue at the heart of the Tunisian capital....
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Algeria’s biggest cultural event, the Algiers Int. Book Fair, returns in March
Just maybe it would be better if emerging markets fair organisers simply encouraged people to enjoy books because books are so enjoyable.
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