Category: South Asia
Behind Storytel India’s Tamil app is a bigger picture Amazon’s Audible has yet to see
For the literacy-challenged emerging markets the USP Tellander has latched on to which western...
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Bangladesh Publishers & Booksellers Ass. seeks $190 million govt. aid to cover the consequences of its myopic pre-Pandemic indifference to digital
The Bangladeshi government needs to “sit down with the publishing industry and provide incentives...
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Bangladesh Boi Mela lurches from crisis to crisis. Online sales soar. Pub’ Assns look the other way
“We are not sure what a virtual book fair is, but it will definitely spell trouble.”...
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Bangladesh publishers pay heavy price for resisting a hybrid Boi Mela as event hours reduced and booklovers stay away
To state that “A virtual book fair can never be an alternative to our historic tradition” is to...
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Bangladesh Amar Ekushey Boi Mela set for March as govt. minister dismisses digital and urges printing more books to sustain industry
Bangladesh began 2021 with just 58.4% of its population online, which sounds pitiful until you...
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Serbia’s publishers lead the West’s presence at Iran’s First Virtual Tehran International Book Fair
It’s not clear yet how successful the event has been – the regular book fair is Iran’s largest...
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Bangladesh Amar Ekushey Boi Mela now set for late February-early March
Ramadan is due to start mid-April, and after that the rains will be underway… But at the same time...
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India: 39th Agartala Book Fair to be held in Tripura in February as Kolkata Int. Book Fair delayed until June
A June Kolkata fair pre-supposes the pandemic will be under a semblance of control by then, but as...
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Big Bad Wolf Myanmar starts its online mega-sale of English-language books. Publishers look the other way
For both domestic and international publishers the event is a watershed moment, adding Myanmar to...
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India’s Kolkata International Book Fair now most likely for June, but the only guarantee seems to be there won’t be an online event in lieu
In a country of 560 million internet users that ought to come as a surprise, but sadly does not....
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Amar Ekushey Boi Mela pivots to digital and back to in-person in the space of a week amid publisher objections. Bangladeshi consumers pay the price
To state that “A virtual book fair can never be an alternative to our historic tradition” is to...
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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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