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Readmagine 2025: On Innovation, Skills, Collaboration

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonMay 27, 2025

Madrid’s Readmagine opens with the values that publishing finds in new developments: good training and talent.

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Spain’s Readmagine 2024 on New Inflection Points in Publishing

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonJune 24, 2024

The 2024 Readmagine conference in Madrid opened with keynote comments on what may be a new inflection point for world publishing.

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Spain: Madrid’s 11th Readmagine: ‘In an Age of Anxiety’

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonMay 14, 2024

The 2024 edition of Readmagine in Madrid is set to examine publishing issues like pricing, business models, and market-specific insights.

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Abu Dhabi: Kobo Plans To Begin Supporting Uploads of Arabic

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonMay 23, 2022

The 12-year-old international digital book service’s CEO Michael Tamblyn addressed the Abu Dhabi book fair’s conference.

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London’s 2021 FutureBook Conference: Live and Streaming on November 19

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonNovember 11, 2021

This year’s FutureBook conference event in London will seat 350 delegates in live session at 155 Bishopsgate, while others view a live stream.

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Publishing Perspectives Talk: ‘Digital Format Adoption and the Pandemic’

In News by Porter AndersonOctober 15, 2020

The next Publishing Perspectives Talk at the 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair is on the digital-format usage by consumers during pandemic lockdowns.

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Frankfurter Buchmesse Online: Our Publishing Perspectives Talks 2020

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonOctober 11, 2020

The trio of Publishing Perspectives Talks this year brings together some of the sharpest players in their respective sectors for agile debate.

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Coronavirus Worklife: Rakuten Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn: Lessons from the Contagion

In News by Porter AndersonJune 8, 2020

Rakuten Kobo discovered that its biggest hurdle was that most of its manufacturing was in China and Taiwan. And e-readers suddenly were selling fast.

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Richard Charkin: We’re All in It Together

In News, Opinion & Commentary by Richard CharkinMarch 27, 2020

Appealing to Amazon, Google, Apple, and other online book retailers, Richard Charkin asks for a change in how quickly publishers are paid in the pandemic.

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Canadian Retail: Rakuten Kobo Acquires Shelfie Technology

In News by Porter AndersonApril 5, 2017

Rakuten Kobo will use Shelfie’s tech to identify reader preferences for recommendations and to offer ebook editions of print books owned by users.

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