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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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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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Langenscheidt Praxiswörterbuch Verlagswesen und Buchhandel Englisch
München et al.: Langenscheidt (2007), 107 pp.
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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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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National Book Policy, HIV/AIDS and Sustainable Development: Papers Presented at the Fifth Nigeria International Book Fair, 8-13 May, 2006
Lagos: Nigerian Book Fair Trust (2007), 270 pp.
"One in a series of collections from the Nigerian Book Fair Trust containing the opening addresses, keynote speeches, and papers presented at the Nigeria International Book Fair, held annually since 2002, each fair focusing on a special topic or topics. The theme of the 2006 book fair focused on two
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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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Erfolgsfaktoren von Fachbüchern
München: peniope (2007), xi, 69 pp.
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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Editores y políticas editoriales en Argentina, 1880-2000
Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2006), 267 pp.
"Aquí se procura estudiar la industria editorial argentina en un período de 120 años, lapso en el que se advierten los avatares de una autonomía amenazada, ora por la política, ora por el mercado. Para hacerlo, se dividió el período de estudio en las siguientes etapas: 1880-1899: el surgimien
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African Scholarly Publishing Essays
Oxford; Uppsala: African Books Collective; International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP); Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (2006), 273 pp.
"This volume grew out of a seminar on scholarly publishing held in Arusha, Tanzania in 2002. It was originally announced for publication as The African Scholarly Writers and Publishers Handbook, as a sequel to the much acclaimed African Writers’ Handbook published by African Books Collective in 19
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Dossier: Formation au métiers du livre
Takam Tikou (La Joie Par les Livres, Paris), issue 13 (2006), 128 pp.
"Ce numéro spécial de la revue Takam Tikou est consacré à la formation aux métiers du livre en Afrique francophone et dans d'autres régions du monde en développement. Dans une série de courts articles, il examine les questions de formation et les besoins en formation des différents acteurs
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African Books Collective: Mid-Term Review 2006
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2006), 92 pp.
Getting Started in Electronic Journal Publishing
Key Guides
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), 5th ed. (2006), 25 pp.
"The 5th edition of a popular guide that provides an overview of the potentials and pitfalls of electronic journal publishing. While not specifically written for an African audience, it is an excellent resource for African journal editors and publishers who are contemplating switching to an electron
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Never be Silent: Publishing and Imperialism in Kenya, 1884-1963
London & Nairobi: Vita Books (2006), 271 pp.
"A narrative of publishing in Kenya from the time of the Berlin Conference of 1884 through to the Lancaster House Conference in 1963, spanning the entire colonial period of Kenyan history. It documents publishing activities during the period, from the earliest information bulletins of the colonial s
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Textbook Evaluation in East Africa: Some Practical Experiences
In: Caught in the Web or Lost in the Textbook? Eighth International Conference on Learning and Educational Media
Caen: IUFM de Basse-NormandieSTEF (2006), pp. 394-398
"An examination of the methodology used in the evaluation of textbook submissions by publishers for the Kenya Textbook Project, and the various components of evaluation criteria as they relate to content and conformity to the curriculum, writing and editorial quality, design and presentation, illust
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