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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 ArticleAmazon’s imminent Brazil expansion may be good for ebooks
With reports emerging that Amazon is finally set to gear up its Brazil plans, it seems electronic goods (high demand, high margins, easy shipping) will be the first non-books sector on the agenda, and...
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Brazil’s slavery history exposed in graphic novel format
In the dark history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade few can be unaware of the “golden triangle” of trade between Britain, West Africa and North America. Which makes Britain and the US the two largest...
View ArticleYaoundé Conference – analogue thinking in a digital age. African publishers...
It’s a sad commentary on the state of Cameroon publishing that the best overview of the industry I can find is from 2005. That may be about to change. This past week in the Cameroon capital Yaoundé a...
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...
View ArticleBrazil’s comic con may have been bigger than the USA’s. 275,000 expected as...
With just ten days to go ’til Christmas the western publishing industry is preparing to take a break, happy to sit back and let the booksellers, online and off, do their work. But publishing is a...
View ArticleAs Amazon’s South America plans become clearer, will Kindle ebooks even be a...
It’s now more than three years since Amazon launched a Kindle store. Back in those heady days of 2011-12 it seemed the Amazon Kindle store was on a mission to take ebooks to the world. From just the...
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12 mind-blowing book events you probably never knew happened in 2017
Usually on alternate Sundays I review the latest Hot Sheet from Jane Friedman and Porter Anderson, but this time around it was a review of the past year and much of what is covered has been discussed...
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50 thousand Amazon students get access to digital books. The other Amazon,...
In countries where, as the saying goes, “people don’t read,” it is often the “Three A’s” – Availability, Accessibility and Affordability – that are behind this apparent disinterest in books. Put...
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Germany’s Bookwire halts ebook supply to Brazil’s Saraiva and Livraria...
Frankfurt-based aggregator Bookwire has been forced to stop sending ebooks to two Brazilian ebook stores, Saraiva and Livraria Cultura. After acquiring DLD last year Bookwire became the main ebook...
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Saraiva and Livraria Cultura respond to Bookwire’s claim to have cut ebook...
As reported here yesterday, the Brazilian book stores Saraiva and Livraria Cultura were supposedly seeing their ebook supply chain cut off as distributor Bookwire took action over alleged non-payment,...
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Ten global publishing stories not to be missed – 12 August 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. They do make the...
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Brazil’s São Paulo Biennial disappointed with fewer visitors (“only” 663,000)...
Brazil’s 25th Bienal Internacional do Livro had been expecting 700,000, but only 663,000 book-lovers turned out for the ten day event. But it was good news for sellers, with the average visitor...
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The Week In Review
Here’s a summary of TNPS posts from the past seven days. Big Bad Wolf shows the world’s demand for English-language titles, taking 2 million books to Taiwan this week Brazil’s São Paulo Biennial...
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San Diego comic convention wins court battle to be the only “Comic Con” in...
It may not be the biggest, despite what Statista tells you, but the San Diego comic convention was the first to sue for the right to the branding “Comic Con,” and news just emerging is that the Salt...
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Storytel Brazil 2019 launch whispers grows louder
It’s only a whisper right now, but the TNPS prediction back in May that Storytel has Brazil in its sights for 2019 now has a little more substance. Back in May TNPS was the first English-language...
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Oceanos Portuguese Language Literature Awards semi-finalists announced – from...
The Oceanos 2018 Portuguese Language Literature Awards semi-finalists were announced this past week, but it’s not a full representation of the Portuguese-speaking world, with semi-finalist only from...
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The Week In Review
Here’s a summary of TNPS posts from the past seven days. Book reading down slightly in New Zealand. More than half read NZ authors Storytel Brazil 2019 launch whispers grows louder Spanish book market...
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Sao Paulo’s Avenida Paulista bookstore closes – Fnac Brazil now has just one...
From the moment Livraria Cultura acquired Fnac Brazil’s 12 bookstores last July (along with its e-commerce site) there was a question mark hanging over the stores – Livraria Cultura had long intimated...
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Many biennials within one. Brazil’s Rio Biennial 2019 dates set, and a new...
Brazil’s publishers and retailers may be struggling, but the ever-growing attendance at Brazil’s book fairs shows the disaffection is with the system, not books. In 2017 the Rio Biennial, which...
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