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5th International Congress for the Promotion of Reading and Books. 9-10 May 2025 at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair.
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India - Pune Book Festival Statistics Questioned - The New Publishing Standard
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"Achieving such sales would mean the Pune Book Festival has outperformed even the New Delhi World Book Fair and the International Kolkata Book Fairโevents globally renowned for their scale and impact" - Pranav Gupta.
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In 2024, African literature thrived, countering previous claims of its decline. Writers of African descent made significant strides, bringing African stories to previously inaccessible spaces.
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Lithuania: ๐ฉ๐ถ๐น๐ป๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ผ๐๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ launches Feb 25-28, focussing on adult fiction.
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Morocco - Registration now open for Rabat International Book Fair 2025 - The New Publishing Standard
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The 30th edition of SIEL will take place April 17-27 at the OLM Souissi venue.
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Thongchi's recognition by the Asom Prakashan Parishad highlights the rich tapestry of Indian literature and underscores the importance of regional literary contributions on the global stage.
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Recommended for those who think AI is going to steal their jobs. Adapt and thrive!
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Costa Rica Literary Projects 2025 - The New Publishing Standard
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PublishNewsEs has the list of literary projects that will be supported by the Colegio de Costa Rica, part of the Costa Rican Ministry of Culture and Youth.
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Learn how AI can enhance book marketing and support authors in our workshop. Join us on 8 January 2025 to discover AI tools for deeper reader connections and sustainable marketing.
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Fostering creativity, literacy and collaboration is a theme, if not perhaps in those exact words, that recurs again and again in the top-level Arab markets, and we (in western publishing) would all do well to take a step back and compare our own measures of success.
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We need to move forward in 2025, not try turn the clock back to 1995, and that means making and accepting compromises along the way, and at the same time being willing to experiment, innovate and seize new opportunities.
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The festival included a comprehensive programme for children, reinforcing a read for pleasure mindset that we in the west, and especially in the UK and US, seem to have lost sight of, as witness the disturbing fall in the number of kids that read for pleasure both sides of the Atlantic.
on Dec 28
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Indian Mangaka Aparna Chaurasia at Comic Con Delhi 2024 - The New Publishing Standard
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Growing Interest in Japanese and Korean Art Forms.
on Dec 28
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French Authors Will Soon Know Their True Book Sales Figures - The New Publishing Standard
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While Filรฉas may not revolutionise the world, or even French publishing, overnight, it has the potential to significantly improve the French book industry's transparency and efficiency, and if it is successful we'll almost certainly see more of the same in other markets.
on Dec 28
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Just for fun, here's my 2024 LinkedIn Rewind, by Coauthor - The New Publishing Standard
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But perhaps most telling was watching academic publishers embrace AI while trade publishing CEOs hid behind their bestselling authors. Wiley pocketed $44 million from AI deals while the Society of Authors demanded authors be allowed to opt out of the future.
on Dec 28
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Fewer and fewer children are reading for pleasure, in large part because the education system has failed them, but also in no small part because a TV celebrity riding on a ghostwriter's skills and a jovial TV persona will never match the magic of a JK Rowling or an Enid Blyton, that wrote for...
on Dec 24
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Total sales when all are included will be higher still. So Why.T.F. was Seth Godin ranting about declining book sales and blaming AI?
on Dec 23
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Hopefully we'll get some insights into how AI is helping transform the print and paper sectors, but this report will also come just as the new Trump tariffs will, for better or worse, be impacting the world.
on Dec 23
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The proliferation of counterfeit items, including kamusi, dictionaries, readers, textbooks, and set books, significantly harms the publishing industry and the broader economy. This illegal activity leads to financial losses for publishers, tax evasion, and economic sabotage.
on Dec 23
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Saudi Arabia - Jeddah Book Fair 2024 Has Just Concluded - The New Publishing Standard
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Among the usual highlights is a one-off event celebrated the Year of the Camel (in fact the Year of the Camelids, so alpacas, lamas and vicunas too, but guessing there aren't too many of those on the Peninsula).
on Dec 23
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Historic Yiddish Book Fair in Herzliya, Israel - The New Publishing Standard
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In contemporary Israel, hundreds of thousands of individuals, beyond the Orthodox community, possess some understanding and ability to speak Yiddish. The fair aims to attract these individuals and introduce them to Yiddish literature and culture.
on Dec 22
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The Al Dhafra Book Festival has a history of success, with each edition building on the achievements of the previous ones.
on Dec 22
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Harvard University has unveiled an extensive dataset of nearly one million public domain books, making it freely available for AI training purposes."
on Dec 22
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Ebooks remains an exciting opportunity for global publishers, if the "vicious circle of low supply and low demand" can be broken.
on Dec 22
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We are witnesses to, and participants in, a New Global Renaissance quite unparalleled in human history, and the era of AI will help that renaissance shift up a gear as it liberates human creativity and potential.
on Dec 22
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Luddites of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your brain cells. Oh, and the chance of thriving as the industry evolves.
on Dec 16
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Saudi Arabia - Jeddah Book Fair 2024 Is Underway - The New Publishing Standard
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Among the usual highlights is a one-off event celebrating the Year of the Camel (in fact the Year of the Camelids, so alpacas , lamas and vicunas too, but guessing there aren't too many of those on the Peninsula).
on Dec 15
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UK's Society of Authors Shows Itself To Be Unfit For Purpose - The New Publishing Standard
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The real risk is of UK authors being drowned out by the generic and derivative outputs of the Society of Authors, which is constantly behind the times when it comes to publishing.
on Dec 12
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What especially appealed to me is that FILBAC will be city-wide, not just at a single venue, integrating the entire city into its celebration.
on Dec 11
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Adapt and Thrive: AI Translation is the Game-Changer's Game-Changer - The New Publishing Standard
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Imagine for one moment if, somehow, the Bertelsmann buy-out of Simon & Schuster had been successful and the ever-tuxedoed Count Dohle was still emerging from the grave each night to dictate PRH policy. There would have been no Spotify deal and no unprecedented surge in the fortunes of the...
on Dec 7
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The industry needs to take a step back from the knee-jerk "AI can never compete with human creativity" and the "AI will steal our jobs, destroy our culture and eat our children for breakfast" nonsense, and take a look at how AI can enhance human creativity and productivity.
on Dec 5
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Mexico's publishing industry highlights the risks of over-reliance on de facto government subsidies.
on Dec 4
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Beware the Future! It's Already Here - The New Publishing Standard
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โAI can never replace human creativity!โ So why are you running about like a headless chicken because your job is at risk?
on Dec 2
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Dr. Asein believes AI will empower authors to become publishers and vice versa.
on Dec 2
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The $1.275 billion UK audiobook market - The New Publishing Standard
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By recognising and embracing the full potential of AI across the industry, publishers, authors and narrators alike can surf this new wave of possibilities, instead of being left behind.
on Dec 1
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The UK's Kids' Reading Crisis Redux. Don't Blame the Parents - The New Publishing Standard
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But these kids are attending school every day, where the joy of reading is being leached from their very souls by a broken system of teaching children to read.
on Nov 30
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India remains, for TNPS, the most exciting publishing prospect on the planet.
on Nov 30
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Jamaica Book Festival - December 7 - The New Publishing Standard
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Jamaica Book Festival 2024
on Nov 30
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The choice of name, styling itself as a book festival rather than an international book fair suggests a pragmatic approach towards the event's future, with focus on readers over rights and the industry's needs.
on Nov 28
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Spotify for (Some) Authors - the Spotify Seismic Shift Continues - The New Publishing Standard
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Why, the publisher might ask, would a mere author want that kind of valuable info? This is the thin end of the wedge. The slippery slope. What next, letting authors see the actual sales records for their books?
on Nov 27
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The kingmaker will be the big publishers, but it will be consumers that that will be the kingmakersโ kingmaker - TNPS 2020.
on Nov 23
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As Donald Trump prepares to take office once again, the publishing industry faces a unique set of challenges. With a compliant Department of Justice (DoJ) under his administration, the potential for increased scrutiny and influence over book publishing decisions is a significant concern.
on Nov 18
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Redundancies in UK Publishing: A Misleading Snapshot of 2024 - The New Publishing Standard
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Why is there so little analysis out there of what the Trump years may bring for our industry? Love him or loathe him, no-one is ever going to accuse Trump of being a booklover and a friend of the publishing industry.
on Nov 16
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Bookouture's commitment to growth and adapting to market trends, vindicates my early impressions of Bookouture back before the 2017 buyout by Hachette UK, as a publisher to watch.
on Nov 15
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Does anyone seriously expect a child to enjoy reading if they cannot read properly?
on Nov 11
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With two Big 5 publishers now embracing AI for audio, and others ready to follow, a flood of new content will simultaneously offer consumers more choice at better prices while also competing for listening hours. Embracing subscription as an outlet for this new content is just common sense.
on Nov 9
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A growing and exciting market opportunity for publishers outside China to explore cultural reach beyond traditional literature, and a reminder that the global publishing market beyond the usual suspects is an untapped goldmine.
on Nov 9
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The reality is that every country censors at some level (try publishing a book advocating terrorism or paedophilia), and that supposedly democratic countries like the US are among the repeat offenders when it comes to book bans.
on Nov 8
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"See you in Sharjah!" - The New Publishing Standard
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Sharjah goes from strength to strength, as the centre of global publishing gravity inexorably shifts east following the collapse of Book Expo NY.
on Nov 1
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Pearson credits AI with driving sales - The New Publishing Standard
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Pearson is at the forefront of a fundamental shift in educational publishing that in time is going to bring into question the very viability of printed books in the education sector.
on Oct 30