The battle of the giant book fairs
2024 is looking likely to break book fair records around the globe.
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Tag: Kolkata International Book Fair
India Briefing – Kolkata Int. Book Fair expands small-publisher access
Last year the fair pulled in 2.6 million visitors that spent the USD equivalent of $4 million.
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India – Can the 2024 Kolkata International Book Fair beat 2023’s 2.6 million footfall and £4 million book spend?
In terms of visitor numbers, 2023 concludes with Kolkata as the fourth largest fair in the world...
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India – Kolkata International Book Fair 2024 dates set for early start to embrace public holidays
Weekends and public holidays see substantial increases in visitor numbers, so the two additional...
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India – Chennai Book Fair clocks 1.5 million visitors, sells books worth $1.6 million. Kolkata on target for 2 million visitors
Kolkata has for the longest time resisted digital options, as TNPS regulars will know, but this...
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India’s Kolkata Int. Book Fair confirmed for Feb 28 despite 800 daily Covid fatalities
Two missed years have severely impacted Kolkata publishers who rely on the event for a substantial...
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India: 39th Agartala Book Fair to be held in Tripura in February as Kolkata Int. Book Fair delayed until June
A June Kolkata fair pre-supposes the pandemic will be under a semblance of control by then, but as...
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India’s Kolkata International Book Fair now most likely for June, but the only guarantee seems to be there won’t be an online event in lieu
In a country of 560 million internet users that ought to come as a surprise, but sadly does not....
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January 2020 Book Fair Snapshot. 8-10 million people spending millions of dollars on books in countries widely regarded as publishing backwaters
2020 is off to a great start on the global book fair front, but what follows should be seen as...
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India’s Madurai Book Fair expects 300,000 visitors to buy 1.5 million books. Just another quiet India book fair…
The 14th annual Madurai Book fair is underway in India, running through until September 9....
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$5m book sales and 5m visitors already, and still India's book fairs line up. The 37th Agartala Book Fair is underway
East India’s second biggest book fair after Kolkata is underway in Tripura as the India love...
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Over 5 million visitors spend over $5 million at India's 2019 book fairs. And we're only halfway through February
India’s Kolkata International Book Fair wound up earlier this week and the numbers are in:...
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