Revenue disappoints, visitor numbers uncertain at this year’s Bangladesh Ekushey Boi Mela
Did the Dhaka event pull in more than Cairo 2024, which this year clocked a record 4.6 million visitors?
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Category: Bangladesh
The battle of the giant book fairs
2024 is looking likely to break book fair records around the globe.
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Bangladesh’s New Years Day textbook give-away
One of the most remarkable events in global publishing One of the most remarkable events in global...
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Bangladesh – 7th Non-Fiction Book Fair ends 2023
But something the western publishing industry has done in the past couple of decades is to make an...
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India and Bangladesh to hold a joint book fair in Bangladesh in July amid prospects of a Dhaka Int. Book Fair in 2024
But isolated instances aside, we’re still a long way from seeing Bangladeshi, let alone Pakistani,...
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Bangladesh – 6 million visitors spent $4.4 million on books at the world’s biggest book fair
…But when we consider Bangladesh has literally twice as many internet users as the UK,...
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Bangladesh – can the book fair beat $10 million in book sales next month?
Come March, as the Boi Mela book-buying bonanza fades away, it will be time for Bangladesh...
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450,000 attended India’s Bangladesh Book Fair
It may be too late now for Indian publishers to make arrangements to participate in the Amar...
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As printing costs soar in Bangladesh, few publishers seem aware there are 130 million people online
The tragedy is many publishers will fail this coming year as print prices for consumers spiral out...
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300 million Bengali speakers finally get an ebook store, but no it’s not a world first
Amazon supports five Indian languages for its Amazon India operation (ebooks only, not print or...
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Books worth over $6.1 million sold at Bangladesh Book Fair as the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela finally got a website
It seems to have taken a pandemic to finally get the message across, but we’re off to a good...
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Bangladesh – Children’s books on traditional games launched by Unesco, The Asia Foundation, in print and digital formats
In a move somewhat at odds with standard publishing practice in Bangladesh, e-book versions of the...
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