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Big Bad Wolf takes millions of English-language books to Taiwan, Myanmar,...
Big Bad Wolf took 2 million English-language books to Taiwan this month for its second Big Bad Wolf Taipei event. Last year it drew a crowd of 165,000 during its eleven day 24/7 run. That’s a...
View ArticleBig Bad Wolf to take 2 million English-language books to its tenth market –...
No images for this one yet – the Big Bad Wolf site has yet to be updated with the details – but next month the world’s biggest book sale debuts in South Korea. The Korea Times tells us Big Bad Wolf...
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As Big Bad Wolf South Korea winds up, BBW is already live in the Philippines,...
Big Bad Wolf’s debut event wound up in South Korea yesterday. No news yet on how many turned out for the 24/7 eleven day sale of 2 million English-language books, but I’d be very surprised if we don’t...
View ArticleBig Bad Wolf announces first Thailand dates for 2019. Three million books to...
We don’t know for sure yet how many trips Big Bad Wolf will be making to Thailand this year, but we do know the dates for the Bangkok bonanza. At a press conference yesterday Big Bad Wolf announced it...
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25 million books sold to 3 million visitors across 25 cities, and it’s only...
One would think a country like Indonesia, not noted for its reading reputation, might soon get tired of a Malaysian company turning up with millions (literally) of English-language books in eleven-day...
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Big Bad Wolf returns to Sri Lanka in October with 1.5 million books
Details are sparse at this point, but Big Bad Wolf will be returning to Sri Lanka for its third year, taking 1.5 million English-language books to Colombo. Already this year Big Bad Wolf has put on...
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Big Bad Wolf returns to Dubai in October, with 3 million books
Very few details available right now, but with one month to go it’s now official that Big Bad Wolf, the Malaysia-based flash-book-sale operation that takes literally millions of English-language books...
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Big Bad Wolf Colombo kicks off today with 1.5 million books, marking its...
The venue is the Sri Lanka Exhibition and Convention Center and it’s the third year of taking 1.5 million books to Colombo, stacked high for an eleven day flash sale. This year’s local partners are...
View ArticleBig Bad Wolf Dubai finished today. Dubai Cares was its charity partner
Big Bad Wolf has been in Dubai for its second year, bringing 3 million (not a typo!) mostly English-language books to the UAE for its famous 11-day 24/7 book sales. This year Big Bad Wolf partnered...
View ArticleUNESCO says Arabs read for just 6 minutes a year. So why will more than 4...
This year Sharjah, one of the United Arab Emirates, is UNESCO World Book Capital. Which means the Sharjah International Book Fair, a major literary event in any year, is going to be even more...
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Publish Global, the StreetLib-TNPS B2B newsletter for self-publishers, is...
The first issue of the new B2B newsletter for self-publishers, Publish Global – serious about self-publishing, has been arriving in subscriber inboxes, and while some of the contents will be familiar...
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Big Bad Wolf hits Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwan this month
Big Bad Wold Balikpapan has barely finished in Indonesia and already the Big Bad Wolf team are preparing another book sale in Indonesia, this time in Makassar, which will be the seventh Big Bad Wolf...
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Big Bad Wolf partners with DHL and Sharjah Book Authority to deliver 1...
Big Bad Wolf has just announced what almost certainly will be its grand finale event for 2019, its tenth anniversary year. Big Bad Wolf Kuala Lumpur will run December 6-16 with 4.5 million books...
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Big Bad Wolf prepares Cambodia debut as it winds down 2019 with 4.5 million...
It’s been an amazing year for Big Bad Wolf, the export arm of Malaysia bookstore BookXcess, which celebrated its tenth anniversary by shipping tens of millions of books to 32 cities across 7 countries...
View ArticleThe TNPS Week In Review: December 8-14
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a summary of the key stories covered in the past seven days. Our week began with news that Kay Thompson’s...
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Big Bad Wolf announces Phnom Penh debut dates. 1 million English-language...
The world’s largest book sale operation, Big Bad Wolf, kicks off the New Year with a debut event in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Running for 12 days in all (the first day is a special preview...
View ArticleThe TNPS Week In Review: December 15-21
For those who don’t get the chance to open all the regular email notifications from TNPS, a summary of the key stories covered in the past seven days. Our week began with news that the UAE’s Sheik...
View ArticleStorytel – the TNPS Story of the Year 2019
There were three candidates for TNPS Story of the Year this year, and little to choose between them in terms of impact on the global publishing scene, but the winner, Storytel, pipped the others...
View ArticleJanuary 2020 Book Fair Snapshot. 8-10 million people spending millions of...
2020 is off to a great start on the global book fair front, but what follows should be seen as indicative, and by no means inclusive of all the literary events lined up for this month. January started...
View ArticleBig Bad Wolf sold $1.8 million worth of English-language books in 11 days in...
Traditionally Big Bad Wolf, the world’s biggest book sale, does not share revenue numbers, just volume of books shipped and footfall volume. So it was with some surprise that I saw it reported in The...
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