Authonomy

The London Book Fair has an Arabic theme this year, with Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the League of Arab States stating:

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He said there had been an increase in the number of books published in the Arab world in recent years, with a new creativeness in literature, less censorship, and more translation abroad. "The number of books issued [in the Arab world] in the last five years was three times greater than the books issued in the previous 50 years. There is increased quality and diversity, especially in children's publishing."

So what this means is that the the Arabic book market is about to go crazy with a huge amount of books about to be published. Essentially this is the beginning of a growth curve. At the other end of the scale, democratizing of quality content is starting to take place with english publishing about to embrace a new proposition called authonomy. Although this will take years to come to the Arabic language (if at all), it's an interesting proposition to think that you can get your book noticed if it's good enough, without being judged by the middle men. Budding writers from all over the world can sign up at authonomy.com

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