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L'édition au Sénégal
Paris: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion (2002), 355 pp.
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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Editorial Functions and Procedures
Harare: African Publishers Network (APNET) (2002), 60 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, and which can be used for both formal training or individual study. Arranged under four modules: (1) Commissioning, (2) C
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Manual de redação e normalização textual: Técnicas de editoração e revisão
São Paulo: Editora Atlas (2002), 433 pp.
"Dois são os objetivos fundamentais deste livro: apresentar técnicas e metodologia adequadas para a redação de textos cujos autores visam publicá-los e oferecer soluções consistentes para a normalização textual. No tratamento das questões relativas à redação, o autor focaliza os momento
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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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INASP Directory 2002/2003
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2002), 350 pp.
"While not specifically focusing on Africa, this directory from the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) is a useful resource as it provides detailed information on almost 400 agencies, organizations, institutions, learned societies, professional associations
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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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Publishing in Cambodia
Phnom Penh: Publishing in Cambodia Project, preliminary ed. (2002), 173 pp.
Distribution of Ideas: Book Production and Publishing in Egypt, Lebanon, and the Middle East
In: Mass Media, Politics and Society in the Middle East
Cresskill, New Jers.: Hampton Press (2001), pp. 159-173
Young People’s Reading in South Africa: A Pilot Project
Pretoria: University of South Africa, Faculty of Arts, Department of Information Science (2001), 165 pp.
"This survey and report is the result of a pilot project and survey of the reading interests and information use of South African children and young adults. It was carried out in primary and secondary schools in Pretoria, and provides insight into children and young adult's reading interests and inf
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Livres d'images d'Afrique noire: Auteurs-Illustrateurs Africains: Catalogue des collections des bibliothèques pour enfants de la Ville de Paris
Paris: Paris-Bibliothèques Éditions (2001), 116 pp.
"Un catalogue et une bibliographie attrayants des livres pour enfants d'auteurs africains et des travaux d'illustrateurs africains de livres pour enfants, conservés dans les collections des bibliothèques de la ville de Paris. Inclut des titres en français et en anglais, avec un index des auteurs
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Techniques et coûts de fabrication du livre: Guide du fabricant
Key Guides
Bamako: Editions Donniya; Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (DSE) (2001), 153 pp.
Upgrading Book Distribution in Africa
London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2001), xx, 252 pp.
"This study is currently the most comprehensive survey of textbook distribution in sub-Saharan Africa. If offers a detailed survey and analysis of the key policy issues affecting book distribution in Africa today. The study was organized and co-ordinated by International Book Development Ltd. in Lon
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Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing
Trenton, New Jers.: Africa World Press (2001), 171 pp.
"Five essays that seek to examine the challenges that women face in African studies scholarly publishing, and which aims to offer insights “into the shifting, intellectual, institutional, and ideological contexts and contests in African studies, as practiced in Africa and the North, by men and wom
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The Ordeal of the African Writer
London: Zed Books (2001), 192 pp.
"This book is about the problems and obstacles that African writers still encounter in their attempt to get published. It is an interesting, informed, and well-documented study that combines writers’ own testimony (based on responses to questionnaires) and factual investigation in order to explore
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Book Publishing in Nigeria
Ibadan: Stirling-Horden Publishers (2001), 245 pp.
Buchproduktion und Verlagswesen im Iran
Orient (Opladen), volume 42, issue 4 (2001), pp. 659-676
"Mit dem Amtsantritt von Präsident Hatami im Iran ist ein Reformprozess in Gang gekommen, der sich nicht zuletzt in der Kulturpolitik auswirkt. Im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Berichts stehen die Strukturen des Verlagswesens und der Buchproduktion im staatlichen und privaten Sektor im Iran. Die ira
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