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Manual de edición literaria y no literaria
México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2005), xxii, 185 pp.
"En una industria cada vez más apremiada por los resultados económicos, los principios que se presentan aquí son un alegato a favor del lenguaje, de la buena escritura, de la coherencia interna, así como de las buenas relaciones entre quienes escriben los manuscritos y quienes ayudan a convertir
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Book Donations for Development
Key Guides
Paris; Ottawa: UNESCO; CODE Canada (2005), 72 pp.
"As a component of international cultural cooperation, the donation of second-hand books is a current practice that is both common and controversial. The practice arose from the realization that bibliographic and documentary resources were unevenly distributed in the world. Book donation programmes
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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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Supporting Small and Micro-Publishing Enterprises
In: 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; Cape Town: National Library of South Africa, Centre of the Book (2005), pp. 204-213
"The author is the former Manager of the Centre of the Book's Community Publishing Project, and here describes the activities of this innovative new project. The Centre provides funding and technical support for new small publishers, individual writers, and writers' groups in South Africa and helps
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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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Editer dans l’espace francophone: Législation, diffusion, distribution et commercialisation du livre
Key Guides
Paris: Alliance des Éditeurs Independents (2005), 284 pp.
"Un inventaire exhaustif de tous les aspects de l'état du livre dans le monde francophone, y compris la production, la législation relative au livre, les droits d'auteur et la fiscalité, les politiques nationales du livre, ainsi que la commercialisation et la distribution. Comprend des sections s
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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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A Practical Guide to Bookselling
Key Guides
Oxford; Wageningen: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP); Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2005), 108 pp.
"Although the retail book trade in Africa face problems and obstacles of equal magnitude as their publishing colleagues, bookselling in Africa has perhaps received less attention and support than the more “glamorous” area of publishing, but as is rightly pointed out in the foreword of this guide
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Das BuchMarktBuch: Der Literaturbetrieb in Grundbegriffen
Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag (2005), 428 pp.
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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Maquette, typographie: Guide de la création artistique du livre
Conakry: Editions Ganndal; Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWEnt) (2004), 188 pp.
"Ce livre explique pas à pas la démarche et les outils (typographie, graphisme, etc.) permettant d’inventer la mise en page, la plus adaptée au public et au contenu de chaque livre, en tenant compte de la lisibilité, de l’esthétique et de l’économie de chaque projet." (Description de la
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Textbooks for All: PPP – the First Step on a Long Journey. Evaluation of the Pilot Project for Publishing in Tanzania
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2004), xvi, 56, 19 pp.
"For a long period, Sida has been the main donor for textbook production and distribution in Tanzania. After several years of stagnation in the sector (despite generous support), the shortage of textbooks in schools had become alarming, and the Government of Tanzania (GoT) and Sida agreed upon a new
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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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Book Publishing in Nigeria
[no publisher] (2004), 4 pp.
"A short but succinct four page overview of the book publishing industry in Nigeria, which has been in steady decline since the 1980s: "At one stage, prospects for the book industry in Nigeria appeared rosy. The Federal Government established paper and pulp making industries, and an elaborate plan w
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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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Book Aid International: 50 Years of Sharing Information (1953-2004)
African Research & Documentation, issue 95 (2004), pp. 35-44
"2004 marked the 50th anniversary of the major UK book charity Book Aid International (BAI), which is active in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and is involved in strengthening the book chain, building capacity, and leadership skills, supporting advocacy and resource mobilization, hosting trai
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Children’s Literature and Africa
Bookbird (International Board on Books for Young People), volume 42, issue 3 (2004), 68 pp.
"Another special issue of Bookbird with articles on various aspects of children’s literature and writing for children in Africa, some of which are individually abstracted in this section." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1554)
