More than 661 booksellers, publishers, and distributors convene on Monday morning (April 7) at Sharjah Booksellers Conference. At the 2024 edition of the Sharjah Booksellers Conference. Image: SBA, Nabs Ahmedi By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Note: This article was published on UAE time here in Sharjah on Monday (April 7). See also: Sharjah Announces […]
Bodour Al Qasimi highlights booksellers’ ‘strategic thinking, financial literacy, digital fluency, customer insight, community leadership.’ The Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi opens the fourth Sharjah Booksellers Conference on April 7. Image: SBA, Nabs Ahmedi By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘The Ability To Evolve and Adjust Is Not Just a Skill’ Those world publishing players and
Building on their existing relationship, Ingram and Hachette Livre announce a new exclusive distribution partnership. A part of the Ingram-Hachette Livre Lightning Source France line, from a video about the installation. Image: Ingram Content; By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Overcoming the Barriers of Time and Market Access” Ingram Content Group reaches publishers, booksellers, libraries,
The Sharjah Booksellers Conference in its 2025 iteration is focused on trends and issues in international publishing. Some of the attendees at the 2024 Sharjah Booksellers Conference gather for a conference. Image: Sharjah Book Authority, Nabs Ahmedi By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Bodour Al Qasimi Announces the Booksellers Conference Some of the international publishers
The United States’ OverDrive is to distribute Podium Entertainment’s audiobooks catalogues to libraries and schools outside the States and Canada. Image – Getty: Zeferli By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘The Most In-Demand Content’ The States-based OverDrive—which will be at Stand 2D88 at London Book Fair (March 11 to 13)—has this week announced a partnership
Grin Publishing, focused on ‘India’s timeless stories and wisdom’ enters a new distribution partnership with PRH India. A ‘Chair Poetry Evening’ set at the 2024 Kolkata International Poetry Festival, a program normally held in February since 2018. Image – Getty: Partha Kar By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Meaningful Stories for Readers Across the Subcontinent’
‘Publishers will remain involved throughout the implementation process’ of a new German-Dutch Bookwire-CB partnership. Audiobook listening in Amsterdam, where Bookwire has a new partnership with CB. Image – Getty: Travnikov Studio By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘The Ever-Changing Demands of the Digital Book Publishing Market’ In a statement released on January 28, the Frankfurt-based
The acquisition of Libreka by Denmark’s WeDoBooks means ‘the right combination of price models,’ according to WeDoBooks’ Lasse Nyrup. E-reading in Copenhagen. Image – Getty: Media Lens King By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘A Massive Catalogue of International Content’ Denmark’s WeDoBooks announced on January 29 that it has acquired Libreka, a German B2B ebook
London Book Fair releases highlights in its more-than 100 seminar programs, which address copyright, licensing, film, and reading habits. Meetings and rights trading on exhibition-floor stands at the 2024 London Book Fair. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson See also: London Book Fair: Daunt and Shelley Headline KeynotesLondon Book Fair Announces
The two-year ‘Inspire’ project report from the IPA highlights solidarity and a need for common reporting standards. A rowing team on the Narrando at Zumaia in Spain’s Basque country, June 12, 2019. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Yury Karamanenko By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson Al Qasimi: ‘To Find Community’ Released on Friday (April 29), A
