India – Kolkata International Book Fair 2024 dates set for early start to embrace public holidays
Weekends and public holidays see substantial increases in visitor numbers, so the two additional...
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Category: South Asia
Pakistan – Kashmir’s oldest publishing house “reduced to a stationary shop.” Amazon’s Kindle gets the blame
No, seriously. It wuz Amazon wot did it! Pakistan is not noted for even being on Amazon’s...
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Rise of translated Indian literature
India Today carried an insightful article on translations on the subcontinent. Excerpts:...
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India’s “Festival of Libraries 2023” runs Aug 5-6 in New Delhi
Sadly such divisions and Luddite thinking will continue prevent India from taking its rightful...
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Digital could help reduce Nepal’s rampant book piracy problem
More often than not, pirated copies are poor quality, and do not represent value for money....
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India and Bangladesh to hold a joint book fair in Bangladesh in July amid prospects of a Dhaka Int. Book Fair in 2024
But isolated instances aside, we’re still a long way from seeing Bangladeshi, let alone Pakistani,...
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India – Confusion over New Delhi World Book Fair numbers as conflicting reports emerge. Could I million be 2 million?
This being India, both numbers are entirely credible, but clearly one or both is inaccurate....
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India – Almost 1 million visitors, but sales disappoint at the New Delhi World Book Fair
While one million visitors may sound impressive, it barely matches other provincial book fairs in...
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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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Bangladesh – 6 million visitors spent $4.4 million on books at the world’s biggest book fair
…But when we consider Bangladesh has literally twice as many internet users as the UK,...
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Will the new Chennai International Book Fair provide the digital boost India’s publishing industry needs?
Actions speak larger than words of course, so we must wait a few weeks to find out just what the...
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India: “No technology can diminish the importance of books. Cellphones can be misused but books can never be misused.”
Clearly when Goud says “books can never be misused”, he has never heard of Mein Kampf,...
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