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Bookwire acquires DLD as the Brazil ebook market heats up
Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives today breaks the news that the Germany-based digital distributor Bookwire has acquired Brazil’s Distribuidora de Livros Digitals (DLD). Anderson quotes...
View ArticleCash for Kindle ebooks – Amazon goes local down in Acapulco
It’s been more than four years since Amazon launched in Mexico in 2013 with its spearhead Kindle ebook store, branching out into physical goods in 2015. This week Amazon finally bowed to the inevitable...
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Argentina’s publishers prepare for Amazon’s arrival
Time was, when Amazon targetted a new country to launch in, it used the Kindle store as a spearhead – Mexico, Brazil and Australia being recent examples. Nowadays AWS is more likely to be the first...
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Uruguay’s Night of the Bookstores. Who says Latinos don’t read?
If you’re one of those who like to believe Latinos don’t read, then do yourself a favour and don’t read this. After all, it’s far easier to not think about maximising distribution and sales and looking...
View ArticleBrazil book sales buoyant as Justice League breaks box-office records
Justice League, the latest superhero film from Warner Bros and DC Comics, has not been the spectacular success it was hoped. At least. not in the USA. But globally it has outperformed expectations. And...
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Storytel goes the TV route to promote audiobooks in Spain
Storytel is always full of surprises, whether it’s beating Amazon’s Audible to India, teaming up with telcos in Poland, or preparing to launch in Italy. Last year Storytel launched in Spain, and to...
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StreetLib, PublishDrive and Bookwire gear up for the global ebook markets...
While the established American aggregators Smashwords, Draft2Digital, Bookbaby, etc, maintain their focus on their domestic market, with token efforts towards the international marketplace, their...
View ArticleIn Colombia the Bogata Parque 93 Book Festival lets bookstores take centre-stage
This coming March will see the eleventh Night of the Bookstores in the world’s book capital. New York? London? Paris? Nope. Buenos Aires. Yes, the one in Argentina. As I noted back in November last...
View ArticleTen global publishing stories not to be missed. 6 March 2018 collation
The global publishing market has never been more exciting, and every day myriad publishing stories cross my screen that I’d love to develop here at TNPS, but there simply isn’t time. I also have a rule...
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Busting the myths of the global book market. Latinos don’t read redux
When it comes to the Spanish-language market we tend to think of Spain and Mexico, possibly Argentina, and just maybe the USA. In fact the USA has more Spanish speakers than Spain, but is often...
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Ten global publishing stories not to be missed. 24 April 2018 collation
The global publishing market has never been more exciting, and every day myriad publishing stories cross my screen that I’d love to develop here at TNPS, but there simply isn’t time. But if you’re...
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Ten global publishing stories not to be missed. 3 May 2018 collation
The global publishing market has never been more exciting, and every day myriad publishing stories cross my screen that I’d love to develop here at TNPS, but there simply isn’t time. But if you’re...
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Ten global publishing stories not to be missed. 10 May 2018 collation
The global publishing market has never been more exciting, and every day myriad publishing stories cross my screen that I’d love to develop here at TNPS, but there simply isn’t time. But if you’re...
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As all eyes turn to the New York Book Expo, more than 6 million people are...
As we all know, there are three big book events every year – the London Book Fair, the New York Book Expo, and the Frankfurt Book Fair. And if we stretch the imagination a little we can count a few...
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Brazil’s Flipoços International Literary Festival sees 85,000 visitors, sells...
When I reported earlier this month that some six million people would be visiting book events in May I added the proviso that the real number would be a lot higher as I will have missed many “smaller”...
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“Amazon eyes Latin American expansion,” says Reuters, carrying the story TNPS...
Yesterday Reuters ran the headline “Amazon eyes Latam expansion,” explaining that, having already established itself in Mexico and Brazil, Amazon was now looking at further expansion in Latin America....
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Storytel confirms Latin America ambitions. Mexico launch this year
Storytel has confirmed its plans to launch in Latin America, with Mexico first in line. As revealed here on TNPS a month ago, Storytel has been talking with publishers across Latin America –...
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June global book fair snapshot – 3 to 4 million attend book events outside...
We’re just a few days away from the Seoul International Book Fair, which kicks off in South Korea June 20-24, in a five day event expected to draw a crowd of 300,000. Add that to the 700,000 attending...
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And the award for best novel goes to… nobody. You weren’t good enough
The winners of the Dominican Republic’s Annual Literature Awards 2018 at the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National Library in Santo Domingo were fewer than expected this year. Síndrome del Iphone by Luis R....
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Brazil’s Flipoços International Literary Festival sees 85,000 visitors, sells...
When I reported earlier this month that some six million people would be visiting book events in May I added the proviso that the real number would be a lot higher as I will have missed many “smaller”...
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