Kazakhstan’s Publishing Landscape: A Market with Potential
Comparing apples and oranges is not the way to look at this. Focus on the positives!
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Category: Eurasia
Overshadowed by Frankfurt, the 10th Baku International Book Fair is set for early October
At the best of times, events like these, on the notional margins of publishing civilisation, go barely noticed, and how much more when they come at a time when all eyes are on the behemoth that is the Buchmesse.
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Mesopotamia Book Fair underway
No, no stone tablets and cuneiform. This is modern day Mesopotamia. Running December 16-24, the...
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Azerbaijan – Baku Int. Book Fair shows publishing’s international fraternity talk often has little substance
The business of publishing – beyond the obvious commercial core – is to breakdown...
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Add another $577,000 in new funding to the sums flooding into global digital audio publishing this year. This time it’s Turkey’s Dinlebi
With competition from deep-pocketed foreign players like Poland’s Audioteka and Sweden’s Storytel...
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Georgia’s Tbilisi International Book Fair postponed until September. Substitute online event for May
Not one to let down its loyal followers, the Tbilisi International Book Fair in Georgia will this...
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13th Çukurova Book Fair in Turkey attracted 368,344 visitors this month
I reported on the 13th Çukurova Book Fair earlier this month as part of a broader look at the...
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Storytel Turkey saw a 315% rise in audiobook consumption in 2019. Aims to grow 50% in 2020
4,054,400 hours of audiobook consumption happened on the Storytel Turkey platform last year, an...
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The TNPS Festive Season Weeks in Review
For those who didn’t get the chance to open any or all the regular email notifications from TNPS,...
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Çukurova opens the 2020 Turkish book fair season. Over 2 million will visit book fairs in Turkey this year
Turkey’s first book fair of the year expects more than 360,000 visitors. It’s by no...
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Istanbul’s Int. Book Fair sees visitor numbers fall in rare set back for Turkey’s book fair scene, but the Turkish publishing industry is ripe for digital disruption
Per a report here at TNPS as this month began, the 38th Istanbul International Book Fair, which...
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IPA President Hugo Setzer calls out censorship as Turkey's Istanbul International Book Fair opens with hopes to top 1 million visitors
Organized by TÜYAP Fairs in partnership with the Turkish Publishers Association, the 38th Istanbul...
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