Iran begins to tentatively re-open its bookstores, but will consumers be ready to visit?
China, Italy, Denmark, Germany and now Iran are among the countries tentatively allowing...
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Author: Mark Williams
Peru’s Lima Int. Book Fair the latest coronavirus casualty to head online as global publishing discovers there’s more to digital than ebooks
The announcement this past week that the Lima International Book Fair would not be going ahead in...
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Data Guy’s Bookstat under-guesses sales on 3 Hachette ebooks by 14,000, throwing Bookstat numbers for non-Hachette titles into doubt
The problem with claiming upwards of 95% accuracy when guessing ebook sales based on relative...
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New global subscription service Mangamo caters for English-language Manga fans (but only on iOS). Wants us to know all its content is legal
The iOS-only launch of a new Manga subscription service may hinder its reach, but on the other...
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After the LBF and BEA fiascos, publishers demand better from book fair organisers. Gothenburg is first to feel the heat. Will Frankfurt be next?
With the Nordics’ biggest literary event, the Gothenburg Book Festival, scheduled for late...
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