Tag: Karachi |International Book Fair

Pakistan has more internet users than the UK, but Pakistan’s first street library opens amid belief that books and digital are separate planets

by Mark Williams | Dec 30, 2019 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Pakistan, South Asia, The global book market | 0 |

The good news is Pakistan’s Karachi got its first street library this past week, and it received a...

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400,000 expected at Karachi Int. Book Fair but global publishers still treat Pakistan as a publishing backwater. Can digital revive Pakistan’s publishing fortunes?

by Mark Williams | Dec 5, 2019 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Pakistan, South Asia, The global book market | 0 |

One might think a country of 204 million people, with English as an official language, would be a...

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600,000 visitors at Pakistan's Karachi IBF, but publishers and IT Minister do not yet see digital as a way forward in a country with more people online than Spain

by Mark Williams | Dec 27, 2018 | Book Fairs, Ebooks, Global Publishing, Pakistan, Publishing Brief, South Asia | 1 |

With visitors averaging 120,000 a day the Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers’ Association (PPBA)...

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In case you missed it – The past week on TNPS

by Mark Williams | Dec 23, 2018 | Africa, Aggregators, Audiobooks, Awards, Big Bad Wolf sale, Bolivia, Book Fairs, Chile, Comics, Ghana, Global Publishing, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, S.E. Asia, Saudi Arabia, Self-Publishing, South Asia, The global book market, USA | 0 |

The past seven days on TNPS – here’s what you missed. Dubai Audio Library “the...

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Pakistan's 14th Karachi International Book Fair set for Dec 21-25. Can it beat last year's 600,000 visitors?

by Mark Williams | Dec 19, 2018 | Book Fairs, Global Publishing, Pakistan, Publishing News, South Asia, The global book market | 0 |

UrduPoint reports that everything is in place for the 14th Karachi International Book Fair to kick...

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The best book fair banner of 2017?

by Mark Williams | Dec 10, 2017 | Book Fairs, Pakistan | 0 |

There’s still best part of three weeks to go, but I’m confident this banner from the...

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Pakistan 3G/4G users hit 46 million. Ebooks widely unavailable as Big 5 ebook retailers look the other way.

by Mark Williams | Nov 17, 2017 | Ebooks, Global Publishing, Pakistan | 7 |

We’re just weeks away from the 13th Karachi International Book Fair in Pakistan (7-11...

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