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Towards the Professionalisation of Editing in South Africa
Southern African Linguistics and applied Language Studies, volume 26, issue 4 (2008), pp. 479-493
"In South Africa, the professional status of editors remains largely undefined. In certain industries, such as the publishing industry, editing is regarded as a professional activity, requiring well-defined, high-level skills linked to particular qualifications and experience. In other sectors, edit
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El espacio iberoamericano del libro 2008
Top Insights
Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2008), 260 pp.
Publishing in Africa: Where Are We Now? Part One: Some Spurious Claims Debunked
Logos: The Journal of the World Book Community, volume 19, issue 4 (2008), pp. 187-195
"An attempt to analyze the state of the book industries in sub-Saharan Africa thirty-five years after the major conference on publishing and book development in Africa that was held at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Nigeria, in 1973. Part one of this two-part article starts
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L'édition du livre au Burkina Faso
Paris: L'Harmattan (2007), 78 pp.
"Offre une approche socio-économique de l'édition et des marchés du livre au Burkina Faso. Il examine les aspects infrastructurels et le cadre organisationnel de la filière du livre et aborde des questions telles que les méthodes de distribution et l'émergence de librairies non conventionnelle
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APNET-ADEA Study Project on Intra-African Book Trade
Accra; London: African Publishers Network (APNET);Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) (2007), 42 pp.
"Following on an earlier study (Makotsi, 2000) on the inter-African book trade that was commissioned by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa: Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (ADEA) in association with the African Publishers Network (APNET), ADEA recommended that A
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Erfolgsfaktoren von Fachbüchern
München: peniope (2007), xi, 69 pp.
An Exploration of the State of Self-Publishing in the Academic Publishing Sector of South Africa
Pretoria: University of South Africa, Master Thesis (2007), 215 pp.
"The academic publishing sector in South Africa is facing many changes and challenges in the post-1994 democracy, with most of the changes brought about by the Higher Education Act No. 101 of 1997. A recent challenge, or threat, to commercial publishers is the phenomenon, and proliferation, of self-
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Factors Influencing the Cost of Books in South Africa
Bellville: South African Book Development Council;National Department of Arts & Culture (2007), 83 pp.
"A study commissioned and funded by the South African Department of Arts and Culture. It comprises an investigation of the factors that affect the cost of books in South Africa, conducted in order to identify possible ways in which government, industry members and other stakeholders can work togethe
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Editing Educational Materials: A Course for Editors in Sub-Saharan Africa
Key Guidance
Vancouver; Washington, DC: Commonwealth of Learning (COL);World Bank (2007), 65 pp.
"This is an excellent resource for all those keen to acquire editorial skills. It is part of a series of distance learning tools currently being developed by the World Bank’s API in collaboration with the African Publishers Network and partner universities. Each self-learning programme will consis
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Interview with Sofiane Hadjadj, Co-Director of Barzakh Editions (Algeria)
European Cultural Foundation;BabelMed (2007), 7 pp.
Glosario de términos
Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2007), 14 pp.
Guidelines on Digital Publishing: A Practical Approach for Small Organizations with Limited Resources
Rome: FAO (2007), 68 pp.
"These guidelines on digital publishing are targeted primarily at small organizations with limited resources in developing countries, in order to facilitate decision-making on how to publish and disseminate their information. The Guidelines are based on the years of experience of the Network of Aqua
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Peace, Democratization and Reconciliation in Textbooks and Educational Media: Ninth International Conference on Textbooks and Educational Media
International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media (IARTEM) (2007), 277 pp.
Performance of the Arabic Book Translation Industry in Selected Arab Countries: Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi-Arabia and Syria
Zurich: Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) (2007), 168 pp.
"Underperformance of the Arabic book translation industry is attributable to (among other factors) severe coordination failures. This is a state of affairs in which the inability of the different agents (translators, book publishers, suppliers, customers, and supporting organizations, state, and so
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Status quo der betriebswirtschaftlichen Erfolgsfaktoren bei Büchern
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 55, issue 3 (2007), pp. 412-441
"In diesem Aufsatz wird der Status quo der theoretischen und empirischen Erfolgsfaktorenforschung für belletristische Bücher aufgezeigt. Die abgeleiteten Einflussfaktoren, die zentrale Steuerungsgrößen für das Management der Verlagshäuser darstellen, werden nach den vier Elementen des Marketin
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Bogotá: Welthauptstadt des Buches 2007: Eine Analyse der Buchkultur in Kolumbien
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (2007), 168 pp.
"Obwohl sich Kolumbien inzwischen zu einem der wichtigsten Buchexporteure Lateinamerikas entwickelt hat, ist die rasante Entwicklung der kolumbianischen Buchproduktion und Buchkultur bisher im Verborgenen verlaufen. Inka Ihmels bietet eine vor Ort recherchierte Darstellung der vier wichtigsten Einfl
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Los editores independientes del mundo latino y la bibliodiversidad
Mexico, DF: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CNCA) (2007), 308 pp.
African Children’s Literature: A Bibliography
Bloomington, Indiana; Milton Keynes, UK: AuthorHouse (2007), 290 pp.
"This bibliography, by a Kenyan scholar and children’s author, lists 1,759 titles in English and in Kiswahili. In her introduction the author states that a proportion of the books were personally examined by her, while other entries are based on listings in Kenya Books in Print, publishers’ cata
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Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2007), 127 pp.
"Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction shows that bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literature and are therefore worthy of serious study. It lifts the lid on the bestseller industry, examines what makes a book into a bestseller, and asks what separates bestsellers from
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Publishing American Values: The Franklin Book Programs as Cold War Cultural Diplomacy
Library Trends, volume 55, issue 3 (2007), pp. 638-650
"In 1951 librarians from the American Library Association's International Relations Committee and publishers from the American Book Publishers Council Foreign Trade Committee met at the Library of Congress to discuss how to meet the "need for books in developing countries." The nonprofit Franklin Bo
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