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Enjeux économiques et financiers du secteur du livre en Côte d'Ivoire: Rapport
Paris: Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie (2003), 21 pp.
"Rapport commandé en 2003 par l'Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, aujourd'hui intégrée à l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. Il examine la situation et les perspectives de la fourniture de livres éducatifs à la lumière de la récente libéralisation de cette partie
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Book Marketing, Sales and Distribution
Harare: African Publishing Institute (API) (2003), 44 pp.
"One in a series of training manuals developed by the African Publishing Institute (API) of the African Publishers’ Network to facilitate intra-African training among its members, which can be used for both formal training or individual study. Arranged under four modules: (1) Book Marketing, (2) B
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Courage and Consequence: Women Publishing in Africa
Oxford: African Books Collective (2002), xii, 108 pp.
"An insightful collection of papers and personal accounts providing a picture of African women in publishing in Africa today, primarily in English-speaking Africa. The eleven contributors are all women who have made notable achievements and impacts in publishing in Africa, have headed publishing com
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Professional Skills for Publishers
Harare: African Publishing Institute (API) (2002), 63 pp.
"One in a series of training manuals developed by the African Publishing Institute (API) of the African Publishers Network to facilitate intra-African training among its members, which can be used for both formal training or individual study. Arranged under three modules: (1) Communication Skills, (
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Developing Materials on HIV/AIDS/STIs for Low-Literate Audiences
Arlington, Va.; Washington, DC: Family Health International (FHI); Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) (2002), 155 pp.
Library Aid to Developing Countries in Times of Globalization: A Literature Review
World Libraries, volume 12, issue 2 (2002), pp. 15-36
"A useful review of the literature pertaining to library aid and globalization, including book donation/distribution programmes, and support for local publishers. The study focuses on two questions: what are the major needs of libraries in the developing countries? And whether some of those needs ar
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The History and Prospects of the Nigerian Book
Lagos: Mace Books for Synergy Educational; French Cultural Centre (2002), 94 pp.
"Charts the history of the Nigerian book and from its earliest days through to the 1980s and 90s - when the publishing industries went into a period of marked decline - and through to the present day. Examines various aspects of the contemporary publishing scene including issues such as copyright an
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Evaluation of UNESCO’s Book, Reading and Cultural Industries Programmes 1990-1998
Paris: UNESCO (2002), 45 pp.
"UNESCO’s involvement with the books programme started off as general in character, becoming focused in the 1990s on country-specific circumstances, culminating in the publication of the practical guide, The National Book Policy. Numerous actions were initiated and implemented under the programmes
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Contractual Agreements in the Publishing and Printing Industry: A Practical Guide
Key Guides
Geneva: International Trade Centre UNCTADWTO, South-South Trade Promotion Unit, Division of Technical Cooperation Coordination (2002), viii, 112 pp.
"This useful practical manual consists of a range of model contracts and users’ guides put together by Lynette Owen, Rights Director of Pearson Education Ltd., and well known for her classic text “Selling Rights”. The contracts draw on a variety of publishing agreements currently in use in the
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Beruf: Schriftsteller. Was man wissen muss, wenn man vom Schreiben leben will
Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag (2002), 159 pp.
Educational Publishing in African Languages, with a Focus on Swahili in Kenya
Nordic Journal of African Studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2002), pp. 167-184
"This paper argues the case for more educational publications in Swahili as a good medium educational and national development. It acknowledges that education is not only a capital investment in the development of human resources but it also immensely contributes to the development of a nation. Howe
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The Design Manual
Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press (2002), xxi, 307 pp.
"The manual will be useful for a variety of people: professional graphic designers, editors and desktop publishers; business people and public servants; volunteers in community groups; printers and imagesetters; students of graphic design and desktop publishing. Not every section in the manual will
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Publishing in Cambodia
Phnom Penh: Publishing in Cambodia Project, preliminary ed. (2002), 173 pp.
APNET Training 1992-2002: The African Publishing Institute = L’Institut Africain d’edition = Instituto Africano de edição
Harare: African Publishers Network (APNET) (2002), 60 pp.
"The African Publishing Institute of the African Publishers Network, in collaboration with national book trade associations, operates an integrated pan-African training programme for the African book professions. It conducts short, intensive courses, trains trainers, and places people on periods of
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Indigenous Publishing in Botswana: The Current Situation and the Way Forward
Information Development (East Grinstead), volume 18, issue 4 (2002), pp. 231-236
"Writing in local languages has a big role in eliminating illiteracy and creating a reading and writing culture, especially at early ages in one's life. The government of Botswana has an obligation to motivate local language publications by creating a conducive environment for this to happen. The Pu
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The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory
Deep Insights
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2002), ix, 273 pp.
"A valuable information resource that provides a country-by-country analysis of the “book chain” in 18 English-speaking Africa countries, together with an annotated directory of the major players that make up the book chain within those countries. Four introductory essays provide overviews of bo
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Community Publishing as a Process of Change
In: Courage and Consequence: Women Publishing in Africa
Oxford: African Books Collective (2002), pp. 61-69
"Describes the activities and publications of the innovative Community Publishing Process in Zimbabwe in order to train 7,000 village community workers, the majority of whom were women. Through a community based, participatory process of publishing, the project aims to enable marginalized groups to
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L'édition au Sénégal
Paris: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion (2002), 355 pp.
Le manuel pratique d'édition pour l'Afrique francophone, suivi du Le libraire en Afrique
Tunis: Centre Africain de Formation à l'Edition et à la Diffusion (CAFED), 2nd ed. (2002), 324 pp.
"Un manuel de formation pour les éditeurs et les libraires." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2474)
