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African publishers at Nairobi International Book Fair look at market challenges: the desire to produce fiction and local-language literature.

/PRNewswire/ -- Diane Foley, founder and president of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation dedicated to press freedoms, representatives from the New York Times...

“Technology is like a bomb in Myanmar.” —Kyaw Kyaw, frontman of Burmese punk band Rebel Riot 1 Back in early July, I started working on a quick

The Paris bookstore Chantelivre, owned by publisher L’École des Loisirs, has opened a 'House of Stories' where kids engage with narratives.

"Rich Chinese are literally eating this exotic mammal into extinction," read a recent Global Post expose of the devastating trade in the pangolin, a scaly anteater that Chinese consider a delicacy. According to the Post, the adorable animals (which one columnist described as "a four-legged pine cone") had become the most heavily trafficked mammal in the world, in large part

With its Paris Book Market opening today, BIEF is observing 150 years of its service to French publishing in the international industry.

Online magazine ArabLit offers a new rights resource for book industry pros to learn more about Arabic literature and translation.

The second iteration of the Salon de Livre Africain du Paris featured some 60 publishers from France and 11 markets in Africa.

In Egypt, a new publisher for the Naguib Mahfouz estate's Arabic-language rights means a fresh outreach to younger readers.

On Marathon Monday, April 9th, 2013, Boston was struck with the sudden and tragic news of bombings near the finish line. Images and reports of [...]