Category: Latin America
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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Storytel Brazil partners with Bookwire to expand Storytel’s ebook catalogue as 2020 shapes up to be the year of digital subscription
Sweden-based Storytel launched in Brazil at end 2019 with an impressive catalogue of audiobooks,...
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Wonder Woman, Shazam, Star Wars, Godzilla… For the latest from the US comic and sci-fi fantasy film scene look no further than… Brazil, home of the world’s biggest comic con
I often talk here about a Global New Renaissance, and this week we’ve seen a clear example of that...
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Brazil’s São Paulo Uni Book Party sells books worth $4.5 million despite lower turnout of “only” 80,000
With the Brazilian publishing headlines dominated by the on-going woes of the country’s big...
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IPA signs deal with Latin American and Caribbean publishing organisation CERLALC as it expands its global focus on the emerging markets
The International Publishers Association (IPA) has this month signed an MoU with the...
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Google’s Loon balloons to provide internet to remote areas of the Amazon rain forest
When it comes to global internet access we are barely past the half way mark, with “only” 4.5...
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Million-subscriber digital books service Scribd offers enhanced localised presence in Mexico, with 60,000 Spanish titles
Despite being one of the oldest subscription services for digital books, Scribd rarely makes the...
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Brazil’s audiotainment streaming service Ubook gets $5 million new funding prior to IPO. Plans new acquisitions spree and Oceania expansion
Describing itself as Latin America’s largest streaming audiotainment platform, Ubook has just...
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Wattpad’s Latin America partnership is a reminder of the global digital reading phenomenon beyond the ebook, that goes untracked by Nielsen and BookStat, and ignored by most publishers
This past week Wattpad announced a partnership with Brazil’s Wise Entertainment, described by...
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