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Interview with Marcus Dohle
The Arabic language book marketplace has an incredibly rich history. The market has also faced unique challenges, from ongoing issues with distribution and logistics to struggles with piracy.
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Q&A with Maria Lu
Marie Lu is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Legend trilogy and The Young Elites trilogy.
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Global vs Local
In a first for the Sharjah Publishers Conference, chair Seth Russo and his panel of publishers and agents – Cyrus Kheradi of PRH US, Kevin Hanson of S&S Canada and Ananth Padmanabhan of HarperCollins Publishers, India – will be taking a critical look at how the relationship between a parent company and its overseas branches works.
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Q&A With Nita Prose
Nita Prose is a writer and longtime book editor. The Maid, her debut novel, was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick and an international bestseller. The Maid has been published in over 40 countries in more than 35 languages. Nita lives in Toronto, Canada.
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Q&A With Karen McManus
Karen M. McManus is an American author of young adult fiction. She is best known for her first novel published in 2017, One of Us is Lying. This spent 129 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was optioned as a pilot by NBC.
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Sharjah Publishers Conference 30 October-1 November 2022
The 12th Sharjah Publishers Conference opens its doors to the world’s publishing professionals on Sunday, 30 October.
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Publishing Rights Professionals Get Two New Awards
In September, the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) announced two significant new awards for publishing rights professionals to be presented at this year’s Sharjah Publishers Conference.
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Erra: Creating an Environment for Creativity and Innovation to Flourish
The launch of the Emirates Reprographic Rights Management Association (ERRA) - a first-of-its-kind association in the region – marks a watershed moment in the UAE publishing industry as it strengthens the foundations of a healthy print and publishing market where both the creation and dissemination of content are encouraged.
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Q&A with Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is a No. 1. New York Times bestselling thriller novelist. A self-described research junkie, she has transformed her interest in police procedure and criminal minds into a streak of internationally acclaimed novels, published across 30 countries.
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Q&A with Clare Mackintosh
With more than two million copies of her books sold worldwide, number one bestseller Clare Mackintosh is the multi-award-winning author of I Let You Go, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and the fastest-selling title by a new crime writer in 2015. It also won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2016.
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Sharjah Translation Grants and Awards
Since 2011, the Sharjah Book Authority has been offering grant support for publishers looking to acquire rights while at the Sharjah International Book Fair. The grant program intends to facilitate cross-cultural exchange and offers various levels of funding support to Arab and foreign publishers for the translation of literary works into various languages.
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9th Sharjah International Library Conference
The theme for this year’s 9th Sharjah International Library Conference, running 8-10 November, is aptly titled Moving Forward Together. The Conference itself is adapting this year and will provide a hybrid model offering both in-person and virtual participation for librarians around the world.
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Audiobook Publishing in Emerging Market
The growth in audiobooks is well-documented and has rightly afforded this established format its moment in the limelight with the trade press, fairs and exhibitions now finally highlighting audiobooks alongside their print and ebook cousins. But the monetary figures and growth in consumers numbers are really only representative of a valuable but small proportion of the potential global market.
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Bestsellers from Diwan Bookshops, Cairo
Top 10 tiles in fiction and nonfiction.
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Q&A with Mariam AlQassab
I effectively manage roles such as working on strategic plans, governance, business development and improving the legislation to increase investment possibilities in books and creative industries. In addition, traveling extensively is one of my prioritized roles as I tend to focus on bridging gaps between cultures, driving high-level programs and projects.
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Sharjah Partners with International Thriller Writers
International Thriller Writers (ITW), founded in 2004 at Bouchercon, the World Mystery and Suspense Conference, is a not-for-profit organization with a mandate to support thriller authors worldwide (a thriller is considered to be “any form of page-turning fiction”). ITW now has over 5,500 members in 53 countries who together have more than 3.2 billion books in print.
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Developments in the MENA Market
The MENA market designation covers one of the most demographically diverse regions. It comprises 23 separate countries, some with comparatively small populations but per capita incomes amongst the highest globally such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and others with very large populations and low per capita incomes such as Egypt, Iran or Turkey.
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Sharjah's First International Booksellers Conference
Sharjah Book Authority’s inaugural International Booksellers Conference, with over 400 visitors from 57 countries around the world, was held on 16 and 17 May this year in the gleaming atrium of Sharjah Publishing City. Delegates included booksellers from Morocco, India, Singapore, Slovakia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Italy, Nigeria, Poland, Ghana and the UAE, and were welcomed by Ahmed Al Amari.
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Sharjah's Al Ameri Looks Ahead to 2022
Sharjah of the United Arab Emirates is the guest of honor country at book fairs in Bologna, Guadalajara, and London in 2022. Ahmed bin Rakkad Al Ameri, chairman of the Sharjah Book Authority, discusses what this means for Sharjah's cultural ambitions.
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Sharjah Book Fair Posts Record Numbers
The 40th Sharjah International Book Fair, which took place November 3-13 in the United Arab Emirates, attracted 1,692,463 visitors representing 109 nationalities. The fair, open to the public, attracted some 1,632 publishers from 83 countries.
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