Philippine Book Festival Set For March
“The PBF is our love letter to the Philippine book industry — its writers, illustrators, publishers, and booksellers” – National Book Development Board executive director Charisse Aquino-Tugade.
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Category: Philippines
Philippines – Survey paints a grim but unrealistic picture of reading in decline
The Philippines has 37 million more people online than the UK, and 23 million more than Germany, both of which have thriving digital books sectors driven in large part by social media.
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The thriller in Manila. The Philippines’ biggest publishing event kicks off Thursday
“The early years were a struggle to get customers through the door.” This week 160,000...
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The Virtual Philippine International Comics Festival is set to launch
The event is spearheaded by Komiket, a Filipino comics distributor, which explains that the...
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Buchmesse 2025 GoH news overshadows an exciting Philippine Book Festival
The Buchmesse GoH gig will of course open up Filipino literature to the world, but the Philippines...
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Big Bad Wolf Taipei partners with Taiwan Publishers Association as 2nd of year Big Bad Wolf Philippines dates announced
Big Bad Wolf Taiwan has a million or more books, mainly English as usual, but also with a...
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Philippines Book Festival heads to Davao ahead of Manila International Book Fair as Big Bad Wolf sale ends
The Philippines is one of the most exciting book markets in SE Asia, and with 102 million people...
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Philippines – The Davao City Library launched its latest PHP7-million mobile library
Some 45 schools in far-flung areas from November 9, 2022, to April 12, 2023, were visited by the...
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Philippines reading crisis has lessons for US/UK literacy
Literacy becomes an educational conveyor belt. This year the class will read this book....
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up # 7
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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Philippines: Manila International Book Fair concludes
The 2019 incarnation drew a crowd of 160,000, but it’s unlikely the 2022 event came even...
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Philippines Manila International Book Fair completes its 2nd online incarnation today
For now the Philippines book market is depressed by the Pandemic and it seems neither domestic nor...
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