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From Papyrus to Print-Out: The Book in Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Bibliophilia Africana 8 Conference Proceedings, Centre of the Book Cape Town, 11-14 May 2005
Pretoria and Cape Town: National Library of South Africa, Centre of the Book (2005), 297 pp.
"Loosely divided into three sections that focus on the past, the present, and the future, the papers in the proceedings of the 2005 Bibliophilia Africana conference offer a wide variety of contributions on the state of the book in Africa, and on topics such as promoting a reading culture, book and n
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The Book Publishing Market in Brazil
São Paulo: Canadian Heritage (2005), 75 pp.
"The Brazilian publishing market is optimistic about its near future. According to the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL - Câmara Brasileira do Livro), the main organization of the sector in Brazil, which comprises all professionals at the national level, the prospects are “favorable, considered to be
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The Book Policy in a Democratic Society: The Case of Estonia
Knygotyra, volume 44 (2005), 11 pp.
"The article treats the two sides of book policy – prohibitive and creative, on the example of the Republic of Estonia. If the earlier period of book history was dominated by persecution of authors and prohibition of books, then the contemporary democratic societies manifest freedom of expression,
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Gestión de proyectos editoriales: Cómo encargar y contratar libros
Key Guides
Mexico, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2005), xxx, 199 pp.
"Esta obra ayudará a los editores, especialmente a los que encargan y contratan libros, a cumplir de mejor manera sus obligaciones. Sin pretender resumir en recetas simplonas el complejo proceso editorial, presenta temas fundamentales como: la elección de lo que se publica (y cómo eligen los auto
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Literacy in Africa: A Partnership Model. Books for Africa Operations Handbook
St. Paul, Minn.: Books for Africa (2005), 16 pp.
"Books for Africa recycles books from the American schools and book distribution systems to African schools, libraries and non-governmental organizations. The books are donated, the labour is largely voluntary, and the only major costs are those of transportation. The other major necessity is a dist
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A Rough Guide to Small-Scale and Self-Publishing
Cape Town: Centre for the Book (2005), 78 pp.
"This guide is one in a series of excellent resources published by the Community Publishing Project of the Centre of the Book in Cape Town. The project provides funding and technical support for small publishers, individual writers, and writers’ groups in South Africa and helps them to develop pub
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Changing Public-Private Partnerships in the African Book Sector
Oxford: African Books Collective (2005), xiv, 264 pp.
La edición y el libro
PICC Position Paper to the Draft Framework for the National Book Policy
Bellville: Print Industries Cluster Council (PICC) (2005), 66 pp.
"In many countries, dedicated plans and policies have been implemented to increase and develop the book publishing sector. In these interventions, books have been recognised as unique products deserving different and exceptional interventions. The salient issues pertaining to book development includ
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National Book Policy: A Guide for Users in the Field
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO, 2nd revised ed. (2005), 68 pp.
"A useful practical guide for all those involved in setting up book policy strategies, and the formulation and adoption of national book acts, especially those in the developing world. It sets out the objectives of a national book policy, and then deals with a review of the sub-sectors concerned (i.
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Issues in Book Publishing in Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Aigboje Higo at 70
Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books (2005), xxi, 270 pp.
"This collection of essays was published to honour Chief Aigboje Higo on his 70th birthday. Higo, by many considered to be the doyen of Nigerian book publishing, was a founding father and two-time president of the Nigerian Publishers Association, and for many years Managing Director and later Chairm
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Biblionef: Bringing Books to the Bookless
Cape Librarian, volume 48, issue 3 (2004), pp. 14-16
"Biblionef SA is the South African branch of an international book assistance organization for children’s books. The author describes the background of the organization, its principal aims, the methods of distribution of its book donations, and some of its other activities, which includes publishi
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Derecho de autor para autores
México, DF; Bogotá: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE); Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2004), xvi, 76 pp.
"Esta obra se dirige a los autores que aspiran a ser publicados o que ya lo han sido, y les ofrece información concreta y puntual acerca de las legislaciones sobre derechos de autor de una veintena de países iberoamericanos. Sin excesivos tecnicismos ni la árida prosa de los textos jurídicos, De
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Kurze Einführung in das Urheber- und Verlagsrecht
Erlangen: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Buchwissenschaft, 2nd ed. (2004), 49 pp.
The Affordability of School Textbooks in Kenya: Consumer Experiences in the Transformation to a Liberalising Economy
Nordic Journal of African Studies, volume 13, issue 2 (2004), pp. 175-187
"The growth of educational publishing in Kenya depends heavily on the disposable income of its customers. This article looks at the incomes of both actual and potential customers, and how they prioritize their spending. The findings are based on extensive research carried out by the author between 1
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