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Children's Books on Africa and Their Authors: An Annotated Bibliography
New York: Africana Publishing (1975), xix, 291 pp.
"A comprehensive annotated bibliography that lists and critically evaluates 839 children's books published about and in Africa. Nancy Schmidt, formerly Africana Librarian at Indiana University Libraries, played a pioneering role in bringing African-published children’s books to the attention of li
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Publishing in India: An Analysis
New York; Dehli: Oxford University Press (1975), 115 pp.
"In spite of the emphasis on India in the title, the author treats all Third World countries, but specifically deals with India by using it as a case study to examine historical development of the industry, its economics, its distribution, copyright, "public" and "private" publishing, foreign influe
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Publishing in Africa in the Seventies: Proceedings of an International Conference on Publishing and Book Development Held at the University of Ife, Ife-Ife, Nigeria, 16-20 December, 1973
Ile-Ife: University of Ife Press (1975), 377 pp.
"The recommandations, summaries of the various sessions, and a selection of the papers read at this conference attended by more than 100 African writers, publishers, booksellers, librarians, printers, and teachers give a succinct account of the history and hopes of African publishing. Among topics d
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Book development in national communications and planning
Karachi: UNESCO Regional Centre for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific (Pakistan) (1975), 113 pp.
"This publication, entitled Book Development in National Communications and Planning, comprises of a basic paper on the role of National Book Development Councils in overall national communication policies and development planning and the two studies on which it is based, namely, Books for the Rural
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Livre et communication au Nigéria
Paris: Présence Africaine (1975), 136 pp.
"Examine les institutions et les différents acteurs concernés par les médias et la communication au Nigeria, les livres et la production de livres, les écrivains et l'imprimé, et la culture nigériane. L'ouvrage est aujourd'hui bien sûr très daté, mais il reste utile pour le contexte histori
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Anatomy of an International Year: Book Year 1972
Paris: UNESCO (1974), 37 pp.
America Latina: Accion del libro en los procesos de cambio. 1
San José (CR): Centro de Estudios Democráticos de América Latina (CEDAL) (1974), various pag.
America Latina: Accion del libro en los procesos de cambio. 2
San José (CR): Centro de Estudios Democráticos de América Latina (CEDAL) (1974), various pag.
America Latina: Acción del libro en los procesos de cambio. 3
San José (CR): Centro de Estudios Democráticos de América Latina (CEDAL) (1974), various pag.
La empresa del libro en América Latina: Guía seleccionada de editoriales, distribuidores y librerías de América Latina
Buenos Aires: Bowker Editores Argentina, 2nd ed. (1974), 307 pp.
A selected guide to publishers, distributors and booksellers in Latin America, with informations on specialists, branch offices, names of owners or managers, etc.
"The aim of this booklet is, by briefly showing the diversity of the tasks undertaken, to survey the multiform but deliberately concerted and co-ordinated activities which, while centred on books as their main theme, none the less converge on the development of man and the fulfilment of his biologic
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Scholarly Publishing in Asia: Proceedings of the Conference of University Presses in Asia and the Pacific Area
Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press (1973), 172 pp.
"[...] the (two) types of (existing) university presses, the medieval (i.e., Cambridge and Oxford models) and the modern (i.e., the American university press model) are being supplemented in certain countries by a third type, a new concept of university press," says Minowa. These proceedings - in tw
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"A brief survey of the role of the book in developing countries in terms of needs, demand, production, distribution, and copyright. An appendix gives the "charter of the book." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 992)
Books for All: A Programme of Action
Paris: UNESCO (1973), 42 pp.
"This programme is intended to promote world-wide action in favour of books and reading. It responds to the decision taken unanimously by Unesco 's Member States at their seventeenth General Conference to maintain the impetus created by International Book Year 1972. The programme is based upon the f
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Books About Books: An International Exhibition on the Occasion of the International Book Year 1972
Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurt Book Fair (1972), 390 pp.
This bibliography contains 1395 titles sent by publishers from all over the world to the "books about books" exhibition at the 1972 Frankfurt book fair. The major part comes from from German-language countries; however, titles from Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere are also included. All titles are
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The Book Trade of the World. Vol. I: Europe and International Section
New York: Bowker (1972), 543 pp.
"A country-by-country systematic description of some of the basic facts about book publishing which are necessary to know in order to conduct business on an international level and useful other purposes as well. Each country gives information about itself under the following categories: general, his
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