Pakistan – restricted book imports, spiralling prices and economic chaos. Not a good time to be a publisher
It’s the classic digital books chicken and egg conundrum. Publishers do not produce digital...
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Category: Pakistan
Pakistan – No-one is reading! We must publish more books nobody wants to read!
Encourage the public to read for pleasure and they will surely find pleasure in non-fiction as...
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Pakistan’s paper shortage halts text book printing as global paper crisis bites
For countries like Pakistan, that have for so long eschewed any meaningful shift to digital...
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600,000 at Karachi Int. Book Fair as New Delhi World Book Fair postponed
The National Book Trust confirmed many major India-based publishers including Penguin Random House...
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400,000 expected at Pakistan’s Karachi International Book Fair amid a shift to an international focus, but digital embrace not in evidence
In Pakistan, where internet penetration is still at just 44.7%, it’s easy to lose sight of the...
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Mark Williams At Large – Recommended Reading w/e 4 December 2021
So many stories of interest to the publishing industry cross my desk every day that make a tweet...
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New publishing house in Pakistan aims to deliver “world-class” but locally-affordable and Pak-orientated textbooks and fiction
World class books, local content is the them behind the launch of a new publishing house in...
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The TNPS Festive Season Weeks in Review
For those who didn’t get the chance to open any or all the regular email notifications from TNPS,...
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Pakistan has more internet users than the UK, but Pakistan’s first street library opens amid belief that books and digital are separate planets
The good news is Pakistan’s Karachi got its first street library this past week, and it received a...
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While western publishing parties, redux: Pakistan's Islamabad Museum Book Fair opens Christmas Day
It cannot be stressed strongly enough that the global publishing industry is just that: global....
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400,000 expected at Karachi Int. Book Fair but global publishers still treat Pakistan as a publishing backwater. Can digital revive Pakistan’s publishing fortunes?
One might think a country of 204 million people, with English as an official language, would be a...
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25 million books sold to 3 million visitors across 25 cities, and it’s only August. Big Bad Wolf shows us the global demand for affordable English-language books
One would think a country like Indonesia, not noted for its reading reputation, might soon get...
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