Tag: Philippines book market
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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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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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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Publishers take note – Big Bad Wolf virtual sale under way in Philippines, a country with more people online than Germany or UK
The bigger picture still yet to be fully understood, let alone embraced, by most of the industry...
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Philippines – Manila Virtual Int. Book Fair extended by a full month to meet demand
Scheduled to run 7 days, demand was so great at the online version of the Manila International...
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Philippines Senator calls for digitisation of textbooks to ensure students do not have to share books
Will a proposed amendment to the Filipino book laws be enough to kick-start digitisation of the...
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