Category: Egypt
“Best Arab Publisher Award” to debut at Egypt’s Cairo IBF amid a bold digital embrace with holograms, VR and an ebook sales platform
The digital embrace exemplifies a shift in digital mood in the Egyptian publishing sector that...
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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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Storytel launches in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Storytel MENA a “catalyst for growth and a greenhouse for opportunities and cooperation in the Arab market”
Storytel recently quietly rolled out its Saudi Arabia and Egypt platforms. Egypt started 2021 with...
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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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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish MENA # 10 is hitting in-boxes about now
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Middle East North Africa authors...
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“Egyptian and Arab publishing was in crisis before the pandemic. Now exacerbated by lockdown”
Said Abdo, head of the Egyptian Publishers Association, said recently that Arab publishing was...
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Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina holds virtual literature seminar while other MENA publishing stakeholders dither over digital
Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina held a virtual seminar at end June, titled “Fantasy...
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Only 30% of Jordan’s publishers took digital seriously before the pandemic ripped up the MENA book fair calendar. Now digital is too little too late to be a safety net
One message constantly driven home here at TNPS is the way in which, in contrast to “western” book...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish Africa #9 is now available
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Africa’s authors and...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish MENA #9 is now available
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Middle East North Africa authors...
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Amid pandemic, Egypt govt. agrees to allocate additional funds for libraries to purchase books from Egyptian publishers
Egypt’s Minister of Culture, Inas Abdel Dayem and Ahmed Awwad, Head of the General Authority for...
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