Publishing in Singapore Digital Publishing in Singapore: introduction & context “We still call it a ‘book’ fair…”, said the representative of the Frankfurt Book Fair to a recent meeting of publishers in the region....
Publishing in Singapore Digital Publishing in Singapore, ii Singapore’s publishers have been operating digital businesses for decades...
Publishing in Singapore Digital Publishing in Singapore, iii Singapore’s publishing industry benefitted from the wave of digital technologies that started to become important in publishing in the 1980s. The picture is more complicated today...
bookselling Kinokuniya Celebrating 30 Years in Singapore Singapore has been quite central to Japanese bookseller Kinokuniya's effort to go global: their multilingual model was pioneered here.
Book Fairs Why we should move the Frankfurt Bookfair to Cannes... The trade book industry would benefit from a tighter linkage between the intellectual marketplace for determining quality, the marketplace for media attention, and the marketplace for buying and selling rights.
Publishing in Singapore How Singapore regulates the book publishing industry This was a draft section of a report on regulation of book publishing in Singapore. Written in 2012.
Book Fairs Blogging the Mauritius Book Fair The 10th Festival du Livres in Mauritius is the only book fair I know that's always held out-of-doors: the weather is so good on this Indian Ocean island (20° S) that the festival is held in tents on the Port Louis waterfront.
PubTech How e-Book DRM could actually be a good thing: alternatives to Adobe, Amazon and Apple How did publishers allow themselves to be at the mercy of the platform players when it comes to ebooks?
Publishing in Singapore Singapore’s Peculiar Path to an E-Book Market Singapore's e-book market, circa 2012