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The African Writers’ Handbook
Key Guides
Oxford: African Books Collective (1999), xxiv, 432 pp.
"This handbook is not only a very useful reference tool for writers, but also presents something of a benchmark volume on the sensitive and sometimes hotly debated issue of author-publisher relations. The book aims to provide all the answers African writers will want to know about publishing, how to
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The South African Publishing Industry Report: Report to the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. Final Report, November 1998
Pretoria: Department of the Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST) (1998), 77 pp.
"A report commissioned by the South African government's Department (now Ministry) of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology to research South Africa's cultural industries and propose strategies for their growth and development. The term "cultural industries" is used here to describe a wide variety o
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Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial African Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Westport; London: Greenwood Press (1998), 187 pp.
"An interesting collection of essays that provide a great deal of insight into the depth, complexity, richness and diversity of African children’s books. The contributors examine the major issues relating to African children’s literature from several directions and from a variety of angles. The
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Knowledge Dissemination in Africa: The Role of Scholary Journals
Oxford: Bellagio Publishing Network (1998), viii, 140 pp.
"A collection of papers on academic journal publishing and scholarly communication in Africa, which aims to provide a better understanding of the nature, role, current status, and future prospects of journals in the African context. Papers address issues such as the challenges of editing scholarly j
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The Book Sector in Albania
Budapest: Center for Publishing Development (1998), [19 pp.]
An Introduction to Publishing Management
Key Guides
London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (1998), xi, 123 pp.
"This is an excellent, concise introduction to publishing management, published in a series that focuses on the issues involved in publishing and developing educational materials in Africa. However, the book is equally valuable to the book professions elsewhere in the developing world, and while muc
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Planning the Opening and Running of a Bookshop
Budapest: Center for Publishing Development (1998), 42 pp.
Books and Children: Proceedings of the ZIBF Indaba 1998, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1-2 August 1998
Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust (1998), 260 pp.
"The theme of the 1998 Zimbabwe International Book Fair was ‘Books and Children’, and children were the main focus in all the deliberations, from policy debates to storytelling. This is a collection of 56 papers, report-backs and discussions that were presented at the Indaba. The papers are grou
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Publishing and Development: A Book of Readings
Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Bellagio Publishing Network (1998), xvi, 191 pp.
"Co-published with the Obor Foundation this is a collection of nine articles/reprints (previously published elsewhere) on key issues affecting the book industries in the developing world. They cover topics such as multinationals and Third World publishing, the economics of publishing, copyright, dis
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The Book Situation in Romania
Strasbourg: Council of Europe; UNESCO (1998), [13 pp.]
Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank (1998), ix, 229 pp.
"This is something of a benchmark volume on the subject of publishing and book development in Africa (and in some other developing countries). It contains the proceedings, and reflects the thinking and the deliberations that emerged from a seminar on“Understanding the Educational Book Industry”,
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Russlands Buchproduktion und Buchmarkt in Jahre 1997
Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurt Book Fair (1998), 26 pp.
Actes assises nationales: Des livres pour le développement: De la dotation en ouvrages à l'appui à l'e´dition, Lille, 11 et 12 décembre 1998
Grenoble: Culture et Développement (1998), 204 pp.
"Sur les bibliothèques, le développement du livre, la promotion de la lecture et les programmes de dons de livres." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 365)
Buchlandschaften: Das BuchMarktBuch 2
Wien: Buchkultur Verlagsgesellschaft (1998), 197 pp.
Bücher und Märkte: Die Entwicklung des Verlagswesens im frankophonen Westafrika
Nord-Süd Aktuell (Hamburg), volume 12, issue 4 (1998), pp. 736-750
"Zunächst wird eine Übersicht über die Geschichte des Verlagswesens in Afrika, die wichtigsten wirtschaftlichen Akteure und ihre Produkte gegeben, um dann die Gründe für die Schwächen des Buchmarktes zu erörtern. Dabei werden unternehmerische Aspekte wie Kapital, Know-how sowie Vertriebsstruk
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South Africa Books Aid Projects
Focus on International & Comparative Librarianship, volume 28, issue 2 (1997), pp. 92-95
"Outlines the objectives of the South Africa Books Aid Project (SABAP), a three year project funded by the Department for International Development and managed, at the UK end, by Book Aid International. The goal of SABAP is to support local initiatives to improve the quality of basic and adult educa
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