India’s Kolkata IBF postponed. Publishers “face starvation” with no digital safety net in a country of 755 million internet users
One might excuse the digital resistance for their reluctance to move with the times given India is...
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Author: Mark Williams
Romania’s 6-event BookFest 2022 programme announced, subject to the pandemic’s whim
With 14 million of its 19 million population online one might think a digital fall-back plan would...
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ComiXology finally to be absorbed into the Amazon Kindle store. Say goodbye to Steinberger’s dream of global reach
But we can be certain that, as ComiXology is finally absorbed into the Kindle store, we can say...
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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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Edinburgh University Press – 68% profit in 2021 driven by “tremendous growth” (49%) in ebook sales
We were well-placed to respond to (lockdown), making all our books simultaneously available in...
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