South Korea’s AudioClip to launch audiobook subscription service in 2020 to compete with Storytel SK
As an audiobook retail platform, Naver’s Audioclip has been operating in South Korea since...
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Category: South Korea
The 650th anniversary of the Azerbaijani poet skinned alive; Helsinki’s public library boom; Vietnam’s book stall in South Korea; and from Serbia, BUM! GRRR!! ŠKRIP!!! STRIP!!!!
We start the day global today in Ukraine, where a poetry collection from one of Azerbaijan’s...
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Storytel launches in South Korea. 19 markets / 20 territories. And counting…
Welcome to the 1,000th post here on TNPS and, rather appropriately, a topic that is a regular...
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South Korea Guest of Honour at Sweden’s Göteborg Book Fair next week. 90,000 visitors expected
Running September 26-29 this year, the annual Göteborg Book Fair has South Korea as Guest of...
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South East Asia Book Fair underway in… South Korea
The South East Asia Book Fair is underway, running September 18-22 at the Convention and...
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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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Big Bad Wolf to take 2 million English-language books to its tenth market – South Korea
No images for this one yet – the Big Bad Wolf site has yet to be updated with the details...
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Storytel announces South Korea launch for 2019, along with Brazil, Germany and Singapore, leaving Thailand unconfirmed
We’ve known since late 2018 that Sweden-based Storytel would be launching in at least five new...
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June global book fair snapshot – 3 to 4 million attend book events outside the US / UK
We’re just a few days away from the Seoul International Book Fair, which kicks off in South Korea...
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While publishers limit their reach with archaic C20 territorial rights, Big Bad Wolf shows us the global demand for English-language books
With a population of 20 million Sri Lanka is bigger by population than all but eight countries in...
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Bookxcess opens Malaysia’s first 24/7 bookstore as Big Bad Wolf Bangkok and Taiwan are being readied
With a population of 32 million (just 4 million fewer than Canada, and 8 million more than...
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4.5 million English-language books are pulling in 750,000 booklovers in… Indonesia
There are any number of contenders for the claim to be the most unlikely book event ever. But a...
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