Byju’s acquires children’s reading platform Epic for $500 million in another seismic shift in the publishing landscape
Overseas capital continues to flood the North America publishing market, entering key digital...
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Category: Children’s Books
Sharjah will be Bologna 2022 Guest of Honour as Bologna ‘21 clocks 75,000 digital visitors
We do have a “final” figure of 75,000 visitors, and counting. And that’s one of the beauties of...
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Debut children’s author from Qatar makes shortlist for international indie book award
Published by Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) and written by debut author...
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Mapping the New Normal – Bologna Children’s Book Fair doubles its audience by going online at last minute. Imagine what it could achieve if this were fully planned…
While not the first publishing event to be hit, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair was one of the...
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UAE’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair cancelled. Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh IBF and Iran’s Tehran IBF now cancellations waiting to happen
The United Arab Emirates had already take the decision to close its nursery schools, but has now...
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Yiddish edition of Harry Potter sells out first run in 48 hours
A 1,000 print run may seem tiny in some publishing communities, but in others it’s a demonstration...
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Saving Charlotte Brontë’s Red House; The Brideshead Festival; A new Alice In Wonderland exhibition
We start the day global today in the UK, and stay there for all three stories, which are about...
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Kay Thompson’s "Eloise" IP sold for film, TV and stage adaptations 65 years after first publication. A reminder of the enduring power of publishing’s backlist
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1955, the Eloise books have sold more than 15 million...
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PRH India acquires children's and YA publisher Duckbill Books
Founded in 2012, Duckbill Books was crowned Publisher of the Year 2019 at the Publisher Next...
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Amazon India’s publishing house Westland launches a new imprint for children's books, as Ruskin Bond teams with PRH for audiobooks
There are fewer than 10,000 red pandas in the wild in India, but a new imprint from Amazon’s...
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Harry Potter heads for Storytel Brazil; India's Bengaluru Comic Con; Charlotte's Web tops the China charts again
We Start the Day Global today in Cambodia, where the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia has gifted 500...
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Scholastic adds its children's and YA list to the OverDrive digital library catalogue
Scholastic has boosted Rakuten OverDrive’s schools ebook catalogue with Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man and a...
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