Conexão Livraria aims to help Brazil’s bookstores sell online
“Small and medium-sized bookstores are developing their virtual presence” – Vitor Tavares, Brazilian Book Chamber. The Brazilian Book Chamber has partnered with distributors Catavento, Inovação,...
View ArticleThe classic chicken and egg publishing problem the Nordics know the solution to
It wasn’t so very long ago when there was no audiobook market in the Nordics. The reason was simple. No-one published audiobooks, therefore nobody read audiobooks, therefore no-one published...
View ArticleStorytel and Tocalivros partner to boost the Brazil audiobook market
Sweden’s Storytel and Brazil’s Tocalivros have decided that partnering for market share might be a better option than fighting one another. São Paulo based Tocalivros is one of many audiobooks...
View ArticleIPA VP’s Karine Pansa on the importance of digital as Brazil’s 2021...
Even within a single country there can be simultaneously cause for hearty cheer and cause for deep concern as some publishers embrace the digital advantage while others wear their never-digital...
View ArticleBrazil’s Audimo launches dimo.ai. Becomes the first Latin American streaming...
“In the not-too-distant future, it will be difficult to imagine audio content streaming platforms that do not have a “dimo” to interact and help their users. Just as today, we cannot imagine life...
View ArticleBrazil’s Rio Biennial is almost here. Can the two-day Jornada Profissional...
The Rio Biennial itself is a public-facing event that typically sees 600,000 visitors buy literally millions of books. Happening August 30-31, the 4th Professional Days event at the 21st Rio Biennial...
View ArticleBrazil’s Rio Biennial clocks 600,000 visitors buying 5.5 million books
Many publishers reporting double or even triple sales compared to previous years. While not quite matching the 2017 attendance record of 650,000, the 2023 Rio Biennial attracted an impressive 600,000...
View ArticleBrazil – 2024 Bahia Book Biennial dates announced
We are talking about the book as a starting or ending point, from a transversal approach with the most diverse types of media. Brazil – the 2024 Bahia Book Biennial has been set for April 26 through...
View ArticleBrazil book sales and revenue tumbled in 2023
“There was talk that only an end-of-year miracle. It didn’t happen.” Nielsen BookScan’s summary of the 2023 Brazil book market makes for depressing reading. Ismael Borges, Country Manager of the...
View ArticleBrazilian Publishers trade org. nets over $2 million in deals at two book fairs
A model other countries would do well to try emulate at future Frankfurt, Guadalajara and other public and trade-facing book fairs. As reported in December, Brazil’s publishing industry delegation,...
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