Jordan – 22nd Amman International Book Fair will run 10 days from 21 September. 150,000 expected
Over 4000 publishing houses from 22 countries will be participating in what is Jordan’s...
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Category: Jordan
TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up #6
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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Jordan’s 20th Amman International Book Fair underway
This year the fair is part of the nation’s centenary celebrations as Jordan marks one hundred...
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Only 30% of Jordan’s publishers took digital seriously before the pandemic ripped up the MENA book fair calendar. Now digital is too little too late to be a safety net
One message constantly driven home here at TNPS is the way in which, in contrast to “western” book...
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"A crackle of promise in the air" – Reflections on the IPA Amman Seminar
“A crackle of promise in the air” was how IPA blogger Ben Steward described the just closed Middle...
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The StreetLib-TNPS newsletter Publish MENA #5 is live. IPA Amman in the spotlight
Our bi-weekly B2B newsletter Publish MENA – the digital advantage has been hitting...
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MENA publishing in the 2020s. Obstacles and opportunities in the Arab book markets
The IPA Middle East Publishing Seminar is underway in Jordan, and to mark the event, TNPS and...
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Arabic folk tales get a second Manga outing. Jinn about to launch in 190 countries. As Arab storytelling goes global, when will publishers catch up with digital video?
Manga has long since moved away from its homelands in the Far East, and we in the west tend to...
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Middle East online bookstore Jamalon raises $10m in funding for expansion as Amazon remains ambivalent about the $1.7 bn MENA book market
Little known outside the Middle East, Jamalon is the Arab world’s largest online bookstore,...
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The Week In Review
Here’s a second chance to see the TNPS post from the past seven days. Start the Day Global...
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The Week In Review
In case you missed any, the past week’s posts from TNPS: As the National Library of Paraguay...
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Sweden’s Storytel Arabia partners with Jordan’s Jamalon to expand MENA audiobook reach
Hat tip to Bodour Al Qasimi (@Bodour) for spotting this story before it made my in-tray. I...
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