São Paulo Bienial attracts 1.3 million in its first online incarnation. One more digital genie that won’t be going back in the bottle
“This was an unprecedented event. For the first time, we brought together people from all over...
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Category: Latin America
Chile’s Virtual Santiago International Book Fair is underway
This week it’s the turn of Chile’s FIL Santiago (Filsa) to reach new audiences...
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Mapping the New Normal: Mexico’s Guadalajara, Ecuador’s Quito and the Costa Rica and Guatemala Int. Book Fairs will be online shortly
Let’s hope the industry has learned the real lessons of the pandemic beyond the mere survival of...
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São Paulo International Book Fair set for 2022 with a 2020 virtual event in December
This year’s São Paulo Bienial will be a virtual event in December. The next Bienial has been...
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Mexico’s FIL Guadalajara will be virtual this year. But time is now short to make this totally predictable pivot work
First it will mean divesting the notion that FIL Guadalajara will be virtual “for this year only”,...
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Mapping the New Normal: Mexico’s Hay Festival Querétaro will be online this September
Event organisers around the world are fast realising that while online must be different, it need...
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Panama International Book Fair will be virtual this year. Last year it attracted over 100,000 visitors
“Read about us” is the theme of this year’s FIL Panama, scheduled for August,...
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26th São Paulo Biennial postponed until 2022 as Brazil’s Covid-19 crisis worsens
Alternating with Rio de Janeiro, the São Paulo Book Fair is Brazil’s biggest literary event, and...
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Mapping the New Normal: “The digital book will occupy a special place” at Venezuela’s Caracas International Book Fair in November
With the 16th Caracas International Book Fair (FILVEN) still six months away, hopes are that at...
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Mexico book market plummets 88.2% amid pandemic. Mexican publishing reinvents itself digitally to save the day
The latest data on the Mexican book market, as reported to El Economista by Nielsen Bookscan...
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Peru’s Lima Int. Book Fair the latest coronavirus casualty to head online as global publishing discovers there’s more to digital than ebooks
The announcement this past week that the Lima International Book Fair would not be going ahead in...
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Argentina’s Buenos Aires Int. Book Fair postponed. PRH sets the ball rolling for USA’s Book Expo America cancellation
The announcement that Penguin Random House has pulled out of book Expo America will surprise...
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