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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Category: Morocco
Morocco’s Casablanca Int. Book Fair postponed as Covid-19 tears up the 2021 publishing calendar
Last year the Casablanca International Book Fair attracted over a half million visitors. This year...
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Morocco’s National Library goes digital as country locked down
Morocco is among the many countries closing libraries to help contain the Coronavirus threat, and...
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Morocco’s Casablanca International Book Fair saw a half million visitors for third year in succession, yet still we’re told Arabs don’t read
It’s a central part of global publishing’s urban mythology. Arabs don’t read. Or rather, they do,...
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The biggest book fair in the world is an Arab event in Africa. 3.5 million visitors at Egypt’s Cairo International Book Fair. Publishers look the other way
Not that you’d know it reading the western publishing industry trade journals, but the Cairo...
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One third of longlist for the 14th Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Arabic literature are from Morocco
No fewer than 411 titles were submitted for the annual Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the most...
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38th Sharjah International Book Fair announces Arab author guest list
“Open Books Open Minds” is the theme for this year’s Sharjah International Book Fair, an event...
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StreetLib partners with Francophone digital books market-leader YouScribe to extend reach across Francophone Africa and beyond
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard, and while TNPS is not a StreetLib...
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African Publishing – The $5 Billion Digital Opportunity as Nigeria becomes 7th largest country by online population
At the IPA Africa Seminar in Lagos in 2018 it was reported that the African book market was worth...
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StreetLib completes Pan-African digital footprint. Launches a publisher portal for every nation in Africa. 800m Africans online by 2025
Italy-based digital books distributor and publishing facilitator StreetLib has completed the third...
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Storm sinks hopes of record-breaking 2019 Ekushey Boi Mela in Bangladesh. Fire ravages Casablanca International Book Fair
Two major global book fairs, both on target to set new records for attendance and sales, had their...
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Here’s looking at you, kid. The Casablanca International Book Fair is underway, but my eyes are on the Ibn Batouta Prize
Casablanca. There can’t be many western readers who don’t see that name and immediately think of...
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