Category: S.E. Asia
Fuelled By FOMO, Gen-Z Are Revitalising Indonesia’s Publishing Landscape – Lessons Here For Publishers Everywhere
Indonesia’s Gen Z is sparking a reading renaissance, lifting literacy indices and revitalising publishing. Is this a global trend publishers are overlooking?
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Vietnam and Malaysia – Beyond PDF Replicas to Holistic Ecosystems where AI, Analytics, and Pedagogy Converge
Vietnam and Malaysia’s leading education publishers partner to develop integrated digital learning solutions and AI-powered teaching tools across ASEAN markets.
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Indonesia’s Literary Translation Initiative Needs AI To Truly Boost Potential
Indonesia plans systematic translation of its classics—could AI accelerate global reach? A hybrid human/AI model may make multi-language publishing viable for emerging markets.
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Malaysia – Popular Group Partners with Southern University College to Support Malaysian Chinese Literature
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2025/04/20/collaboration-to-support-literature-museum
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Reviving Reading Culture: Lessons from Malaysia’s Book Giveaway
One of the unexplored intrigues in modern publishing is how western publishing uses remaindered outlets like BooksXcess to produce way more books than they can ever hope to sell in the home markets at regular price.
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Thailand’s Bangkok National/International Book Fair clocked 1.3 million visitors despite earthquake closure
Peaking at 170,000 in a single day, the event hosted 271 rights-matching meetings closing deals worth $2 million.
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Thai Publishing Industry: Harnessing Soft Power to Reach Global Markets
At TIBE in February, the Thai pavilion attracted 250,000 visitors.
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Thailand – Bangkok International Book Fair Expects 1.3 Million Visitors To Spend $12 million
“This will be the largest event in our 53-year history, reinforcing our position as the biggest book trade event in Southeast Asia.”
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Indonesia – Taman Budaya Yogyakarta Hosts Literary Composium
The symposium, themed “Yogyakarta is the Capital of Literary Books,” brought together over 50 participants for a series of discussions.
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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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Meet Malaysia’s youngest published author, seven years old
As a kid I filled exercise book after exercise book with stories, that on occasion impressed my teachers, but being a published author, or indeed any form of writing for a living, was never an option when it came to discussing my future with the careers officer, whose imagination ran the full gamut of job options from road sweeper to sweeper of roads to highway hygienist, with the promise of one day owning my own broom.
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Thailand – Publishing market faces a challenging year but optimism abounds thanks to “boys love” and inflation
In other words, just as in many western markets, inflation is delivering a false image of rising revenues.
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