Is Lagos the new Gotham? The African comic book boom
“Growing up in the capital city of Nigeria, Roye Okupe didn’t have many super-powered role...
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Author: Mark Williams
Parag ensures India's children's books are not just for English-speakers
Since Tata Trusts launched Parag in 2005, some twenty million children have benefited from this far-sighted initiative to make children’s books available in India’s myriad local languages. Inevitably in any former...
Read MoreThe largest purchaser of short fiction in the United States
“This American short fiction app is hoping its author quality control will attract a wide audience to its mobile story ‘bursts'”, says Molly Flatt over at The Bookseller’s Futurebook. Flatt is discussing...
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Listening to the pictures – the rise of audio-comics
Ecoutez les images (Listen to the pictures) Comics are rarely out of the news these days, and even...
Read MoreInstagram Poets that outsell Grisham and Atwood
It was never meant to be like this. In those dark and gloomy days of 2011-13 it seemed to many observers that mainstream publishing had no future and digital would not just disrupt, but destroy publishing as we knew it. Not only...
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