India – Chennai Book Fair clocks 1.5 million visitors, sells books worth $1.6 million. Kolkata on target for 2 million visitors
Kolkata has for the longest time resisted digital options, as TNPS regulars will know, but this...
Read More
Tag: Kolkata International Book Fair
India’s Kolkata Int. Book Fair confirmed for Feb 28 despite 800 daily Covid fatalities
Two missed years have severely impacted Kolkata publishers who rely on the event for a substantial...
Read More
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...
Read More
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....
Read More
January 2020 Book Fair Snapshot. 8-10 million people spending millions of dollars on books in countries widely regarded as publishing backwaters
2020 is off to a great start on the global book fair front, but what follows should be seen as...
Read More
India’s Madurai Book Fair expects 300,000 visitors to buy 1.5 million books. Just another quiet India book fair…
The 14th annual Madurai Book fair is underway in India, running through until September 9....
Read More
$5m book sales and 5m visitors already, and still India's book fairs line up. The 37th Agartala Book Fair is underway
East India’s second biggest book fair after Kolkata is underway in Tripura as the India love...
Read More
Over 5 million visitors spend over $5 million at India's 2019 book fairs. And we're only halfway through February
India’s Kolkata International Book Fair wound up earlier this week and the numbers are in:...
Read More
As the London Book Fair looms, invisible millions attend book fairs and festivals around the globe
If it’s February it must be the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela in Bangladesh, an annual festival of...
Read More
India’s “perfect”, “phenomenal”, “best ever”, “significant”, “watershed” year in publishing
Regulars here at TNPS perhaps won’t be so surprised by the headline. I’ve long said India is...
Read More
Kolkata International Book Fair asks Pakistan PM Imran Khan to support Pakistan participation
India-Pakistan relations have always been strained, but one might be surprised to learn that the...
Read More
Bangladesh Book Fair in Kolkata sets the scene for Kolkata IBF and the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
On any given day there are more book fairs and festivals happening around the world than anyone...
Read More