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An Arabic reading app, Abjjad has 1.5 million registered users and works with publishers in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and other markets.

A bookstore downstairs and a library upstairs, India's Trilogy Bookstore serves a loyal following: 'Getting books is our only headache.'

A prized center of Arabic language, culture, and literature in London is closing amid mounting economic and post-Brexit challenges.

The Bookwire 'All About Audio' conference highlighted trends in the fast-growing popularity of audiobooks in France. (Sponsored)

The new iteration of the Beirut Books fair was designed 'to have the author meet the public' in beleaguered Lebanon.

'Every mobile can became a pocket library,' according to digital book distributor Juan Pirlot de Corbion at YouScribe.

Among issues discussed in audiobook market development: more business models and Spotify's entry with à la carte pricing.

'You have to be what you want to be,' Scholastic's Peter Warwick tells the new Frankfurt Kids program.

Across the diverse Arab world, the potential to grow readership is vast and two publishers say success depends on having great books.