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PA Market Report Republic of Korea

PA Market Report Republic of Korea The Republic of Korea is one of the top ten publishing markets in the world with a retail market size estimated between £2.5bn and £3.75bn.  


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PA Market Report Singapore

PA Market Report Singapore Singapore is a wealthy city-state, well-placed to benefit from the growth of emerging markets in Asia. It is a largely English-language market, with long-standing historical and cultural links with the UK. With post financial crisis deleveraging likely to continue to constrain economic growth in Europe and the US, can Singapore offer the prospect of an increase in profitable business to UK publishers?


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PA Market Report Taiwan

PA Market Report Taiwan It is nearly ten years since the PA commissioned its original report on Taiwan, and during this time the territory has formed ever-greater links with mainland China: political, commercial and cultural.  This is reflected in the publishing industry, which is increasingly looking across the Straits for growth and development as is shown in the growth of translations from mainland China.


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PA Market Report Vietnam

PA Market Report Vietnam Vietnam is a CIVET, a term invested by the financial services industry to describe the next anticipated emerging nations. Vietnam appears well qualified to merit the recognition as in 2010/11 it was the second fastest growing economy in South East Asia behind China.   


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PA Primary Education Market Report East Africa

PA Primary Education Market Report East Africa There are many common features in the primary education book market across all the countries covered in this report: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

  • All are exclusively, low price markets with issues of funding the provision of sufficient teaching and learning materials.
  • All have moved away from a parastatal book industry towards open supply by commercial publishers, but to varying degrees and with varying features.
  • All have subscribed to the UNESCO Education for All Initiative and have adopted objectives enshrined in the Millennium Development Goals
  • All governments have developed and are working to achieve development policies designed to lift their countries to middle income status
  • Education is the key to delivering the strategy of throughout the region. 

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Romania Publishing Market Profile 2009

Romania Publishing Market Profile 2009 Romania should be regarded as a market with worthwhile long-term protential for British publishers, despite its current challenges. In 2008 the value of the market to publishers was around £45m and estimates for the value of the market at point of purchase vary between £70m and £90m.  It is most significant as an ELT market, but also imports substantial quantities of STM product and some popular fiction, reference and general, and children's books in English.  It is also a modest but worthwhile market for rights sales of fiction, general, children's and some academic titles 


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