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Sharjah Plans Third International Booksellers Conference
The third International Booksellers Conference will be held on April 27-28 in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. More than two hundred booksellers and publishing professionals from the region and around the world are expected to attend.
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2023: Book Pros Gather from 106 Countries
The Publishers Conference, which precedes the Sharjah International Book Fair, was held in the U.A.E. last weekend, and attracted more than 1,000 delegates from 106 countries.
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2023: Q&A with Nuria Cabuti, CEO of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Núria Cabutí is the CEO of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, the largest Spanish-language publishing house in the world, which is based in Barcelona.
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2023: African Publishers Connect with the World Through Sharjah
A key objective and strength of the Sharjah Publishers Conference has been to connect publishers from the global publishing community with the African publishing world. This year’s African presence has increased again, with participants from 18 African countries (excluding North Africa/Arab countries), many of them Francophone, including Benin, Burkino Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Mauritius and Zaire for the first time, along with many returning participants.
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2023: Creating Connections Through Publishing Education
A primary goal of the NYU Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts is teaching our students to understand the globalization of publishing and the needs and challenges of colleagues around the world.
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2023: Ingram Prints on Demand for Arabic Publishers
Lightning Source Sharjah, the print-on-demand joint venture between Ingram Content Group’s (Ingram) Lightning Source LLC and the Sharjah Book Authority, is making more books accessible in the Arabic language and changing the way books are distributed in the Middle East.
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2023: LEILA Brings Arabic Literature to European Languages
A new project set up to promote the translation and distribution of books from the Arabic-speaking literary scene into Europe, LEILA is funded by a European Union program and designed and implemented by iReMMO and ATLAS in France, BOZAR in Belgium and Federation Tunisienne des Editeurs in Tunisia.
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2023: Making Books More Accessible WIPO Award to Be Presented in Sharjah
This year’s winners of the Accessible Books Consortium’s (ABC) International Excellence Award will be announced on October 30 at the 2023 Sharjah Publishers Conference, the first time that this prestigious award has been presented in the Middle East.
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2023: Nielsen Works with the Emirati Publishers Association on Data
Nielsen BookData, the world’s leading provider of bibliographic data and retail sales monitoring for print books, has partnered with the Emirates Publishers Association (EPA) to digitize title listings and boost the growth of the U.A.E.’s publishing industry.
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Sharjah International Book Fair 2023: Q&A with Journalist Elizabeth S. Moore
Elizabeth S. Moore has worked as a journalist since she won the Decanter Young Wine Writer of the Year at seventeen, writing columns and articles on restaurants, politics, South Africa and all things foodie.
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