Germany’s ContentShift accelerator for publishing startups announced its 2024 winner: Berlin-based Gamebook Studio platform.
Germany’s ContentShift Accelerator Names Its Five 2024 Finalists
One of the five finalist start-ups in Germany’s ContentShift Accelerator program will receive a €10,000 grant at Frankfurter Buchmesse.
Germany’s ContentShift Accelerator: Ten 2024 Nominees
Applications for this year’s ContentShift Accelerator program included companies from European countries, South Africa, and Rwanda.
World Read Aloud Day 2022: LitWorld’s Innovative Partnerships
Behind today’s annual Scholastic-sponsored World Read Aloud Day program lie ‘innovation partnerships,’ a key part of LitWorld’s success.
Book Aid International’s Year: 867,567 Books to 19 Countries
Solar lamps as well as hundreds of thousands of books were in play in 2020 for Book Aid International’s logistics team and donor-publishers.
UK-based Book Aid International Donated 1.2 Million Books in 2019
The charity last year was at work in 23 refugee camps, 38 prison libraries, 1,567 schools, 635 public libraries, and more.
International Day of the Girl: NABU Launches Haitian Creole / English Storybooks
Having conducted workshops in Haiti for authors, the literacy charity Nabu is releasing the two of a planned series of bilingual books for girls of color.
Book Aid International Opens New Charitable Initiative in Rwanda
Close to 32,000 books have been shipped by Book Aid International to the African nation, the charity says, to bolster community libraries.
Rwanda’s Huza Press Founder on the Challenges of Her Market
In talking about the Rwandan cultural context for reading and literature, publisher Louise Umutoni of Huza Press talks of authors publishing outside Africa.