Bangladesh – Ekushey Boi Mela Concludes After a Month of Low Attendance, Poor Sales, Censorship and Mob Rule
Stalls were shut down, books removed, and even female hygiene products were targetted by Islamic extremist elements.
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Bangladesh Publishers & Booksellers Ass. seeks $190 million govt. aid to cover the consequences of its myopic pre-Pandemic indifference to digital
The Bangladeshi government needs to “sit down with the publishing industry and provide incentives...
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Bangladesh: Amar Ekushey Boi Mela will close early as Covid-19 races out of control. Publishers that resisted digital report huge losses
We are, after all, talking here a country of 111 million internet users. But that seems beyond the...
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Amar Ekushey Boi Mela pivots to digital and back to in-person in the space of a week amid publisher objections. Bangladeshi consumers pay the price
To state that “A virtual book fair can never be an alternative to our historic tradition” is to...
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3-day International Literature Conference to accompany the annual Bangladesh Amar Ekushey Boi Mela in February. But will digital be part of the debate?
The Bangladesh Prime Minister and literature lover Sheikh Hasina will once again inaugurate the...
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Call for Ekushey Boi Mela to be place under control of Bangladeshi publishers guilds
If the final numbers for the month long Amar Ekushey Boi Mela actually compared favourably with...
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Dhaka Book Fair organisers in High Court over Bkash monopoly
The world’s longest duration book fair, the month-long Amar Ekushey Boi Mela, is mired in legal...
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