A Landmark for Singapore’s Independent Book Trade
Singapore’s first Indie Bookshop Day unites 20 independents for community-focused events, drawing on UK and US models. Insights for publishers on supporting local booksellers.
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Category: Singapore
In Saudi Arabia, a Singaporean backlist title makes culinary publishing history at Riyadh ceremony
Singapore’s The Food of Singapore Malays wins historic Best of All at Gourmand Awards in Riyadh, celebrating a four-year-old backlist triumph in culinary publishing.
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Singapore, population 5.9 million, saw 8 million downloads from OverDrive in2021, equalling Los Angeles, and beaten only by Toronto as 121 libraries exceeded 1 million digital downloads
All told OverDrive saw 506 million downloads in 2021, mostly in North America, and of course none...
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Big Bad Wolf continues its online pivot with second Singapore event
Not much to add to this saga that hasn’t been said before, so this will be a brief item, but...
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Another nail in Screen Fatigue’s coffin as OverDrive clocks 430 million digital downloads in 2020
Print of course remains king, although bricks & mortar booksellers face existential challenges...
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Singapore Book Awards 2020 held online. Dedicated awards for Best Ebook, Best Audiobook and Best Digital Marketing. Cookery book takes the main prize
A cookery book takes the big prize at this year’s Singapore Book Awards, held online this year...
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OverDrive demolishes the nonsense that readers have abandoned ebooks for audiobooks as 2019 breaks records for both, adding to uncertainty about Kobo's future
We’ve heard it so many times its hard not to start believing it. Screen fatigue is driving...
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PublishDrive adds Hoopla and STARY's Dreame to its distribution portfolio
At this time of year most western publishing operations are winding down for the Christmas and New...
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Mediacorp and Wattpad partner to develop a Wattpad series for Singapore TV
Wattpad has long since been active in the Philippines TV arena, but today comes news Wattpad has...
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Celebrating its first anniversary, Singapore’s mobile reading app Dreame is another example of the millions of invisible global digital readers outside mainstream publishing
“Show Your Girl Power” is the topic of to a writing competition to mark the successful...
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StreetLib partners with Singapore-based STARY's Dreame and FicFun mobile reading apps
Italy-based digital books distributor and publishing facilitator StreetLib has partnered...
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As Penguin Random House SE Asia goes live, PRH plans just shy of 100 mostly English-language releases this year across the region
A common theme here at TNPS is the much-overlooked demand for English-language content in parts of...
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