Pakistan – Jashn-e-Kitab Festival Concludes
The reality is that Pakistan’s publishing industry has not moved with the times, and still obsesses over print books at a time when the country has well over 100 million people online.
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Category: Pakistan
Pakistan – Punjab University 3-Day Book Fair Sold 100,000+ Books. 300,000 Visitors Had Been Expected
An impressive turnout, as we come to expect at Pakistan’s book fairs, but the books vs technology dichotomy seems sadly still to prevail.
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9th Adab Festival Pakistan: Celebrating Literature and Cultural Dialogue
As so often across South Asia, some people seem unable to understand that books can be read and listened to digitally and that ink and paper is just a vehicle, and does not have any magical qualities in its own right.
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Pakistan – Mobile phones are stopping people reading, and other nonsense
Clearly CM Baqar neither knows nor understand that Pakistan has 116 million people online, every...
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Pakistan – 400,000 expected at the Karachi International Book Fair
In 2022 the event pulled in 600,000, so no records are expected to be broken this time around. Now...
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Pakistan – Kashmir’s oldest publishing house “reduced to a stationary shop.” Amazon’s Kindle gets the blame
No, seriously. It wuz Amazon wot did it! Pakistan is not noted for even being on Amazon’s...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up #2
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it...
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Pakistan – restricted book imports, spiralling prices and economic chaos. Not a good time to be a publisher
It’s the classic digital books chicken and egg conundrum. Publishers do not produce digital...
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Pakistan – No-one is reading! We must publish more books nobody wants to read!
Encourage the public to read for pleasure and they will surely find pleasure in non-fiction as...
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Pakistan’s paper shortage halts text book printing as global paper crisis bites
For countries like Pakistan, that have for so long eschewed any meaningful shift to digital...
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600,000 at Karachi Int. Book Fair as New Delhi World Book Fair postponed
The National Book Trust confirmed many major India-based publishers including Penguin Random House...
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400,000 expected at Pakistan’s Karachi International Book Fair amid a shift to an international focus, but digital embrace not in evidence
In Pakistan, where internet penetration is still at just 44.7%, it’s easy to lose sight of the...
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