Category: S.E. Asia
Thailand – Bangkok International Book Fair Expects 1.3 Million Visitors To Spend $12 million
“This will be the largest event in our 53-year history, reinforcing our position as the biggest book trade event in Southeast Asia.”
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Indonesia – Taman Budaya Yogyakarta Hosts Literary Composium
The symposium, themed “Yogyakarta is the Capital of Literary Books,” brought together over 50 participants for a series of discussions.
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Philippine Book Festival Set For March
“The PBF is our love letter to the Philippine book industry — its writers, illustrators, publishers, and booksellers” – National Book Development Board executive director Charisse Aquino-Tugade.
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Meet Malaysia’s youngest published author, seven years old
As a kid I filled exercise book after exercise book with stories, that on occasion impressed my teachers, but being a published author, or indeed any form of writing for a living, was never an option when it came to discussing my future with the careers officer, whose imagination ran the full gamut of job options from road sweeper to sweeper of roads to highway hygienist, with the promise of one day owning my own broom.
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Thailand – Publishing market faces a challenging year but optimism abounds thanks to “boys love” and inflation
In other words, just as in many western markets, inflation is delivering a false image of rising revenues.
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Thailand’s first rights fair will be part of the 22nd Bangkok International Book Fair
Amazon has no time for most SE Asia markets, and that has allowed Thai publishers to embrace digital options on their own terms.
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Philippines – Survey paints a grim but unrealistic picture of reading in decline
The Philippines has 37 million more people online than the UK, and 23 million more than Germany, both of which have thriving digital books sectors driven in large part by social media.
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Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City’s second Book Street inaugurated
The first Vietnam Book Street was opened in Hanoi in 2017 and has over 16 bookstores. Running...
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Vietnam – 6th National Book Awards
The 6th National Book Awards in Vietnam on December 29 honoured 41 books at a ceremony in Hanoi....
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Iran eyes ASEAN as an 800 million people market at the Indonesian International Book Fair
“Entering Indonesia is entering the ASEAN region, which has a population of about 800...
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The Virtual Philippine International Comics Festival is set to launch
The event is spearheaded by Komiket, a Filipino comics distributor, which explains that the...
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Buchmesse 2025 GoH news overshadows an exciting Philippine Book Festival
The Buchmesse GoH gig will of course open up Filipino literature to the world, but the Philippines...
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