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The African University Press
Cape Town: African Minds (2017), 62 pp.
"A holistic way of approaching the question of how African university presses can reposition themselves in support of the broader shift of some African universities towards a greater focus on research, is to consider shifts in the dominant institutional logic in the academic publishing industry. Bas
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Digital Publishing Report
New Delhi: German Book Office (2017), 7 pp.
"India’s book market is overall the sixth largest in the world and the second largest among English language book markets, and it is expected to reach INR739 billion by the year 2020. More than 70 per cent publishers in India have digitised their content to produce e-book versions. E-readers as we
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Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors: Common Scenarios with Guidance from Community Practice
Authors Alliance (2017), 99 pp.
"Nonfiction authors often use existing materials in their works: A historian excerpts a soldier’s letters to a loved one; an art critic reproduces a telling detail in a painting; a scientist quotes from a well-known article. Readers of nonfiction works expect new writing to reference and incorpora
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Textbook Provision for All: Lessons Learned from the General Education Quality Improvement Project (GEQIP)
Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2017), xiv, 40 pp.
"Ethiopia printed more than 78 million textbooks for 20.1 million students under GEQIP1. When the current reliance on development partners to provide teaching/learning materials comes to an end, these impressive gains can be sustained only if the Ethiopian government allocates adequate, predictable
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Les défis de la promotion et de la distribution des livres en langues africaines. Actes du colloque, Conakry 27 au 28 novembre 2017 – INRAP, Donka
Conakry: Éditions Ganndal (2017), 22 pp.
"Le colloque poursuivait les objectifs suivants : dresser un état des lieux de l’édition et de la politique du livre en langues nationales dans les pays participants au colloque; exposer et discuter de la pertinence, de l’utilisation, et de la portée de certains alphabets introduits dans les
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Online-Marketing und E-Commerce für Buchverlage
Frankfurt am Main: Bramann (2017), 165 pp.
"Das klassische Marketing wird heutzutage durch verschiedene Möglichkeiten der Internetkommunikation und der digitalen Medien ergänzt, die über alle Sparten hinweg in zunehmendem Masse relevant werden. Im vorliegenden Band, der den Titel 'Verlagsmarketing' von Ulrich Huse in idealer Weise ergänz
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Implementing constitutional language provisions through the Indigenous Language Publishing Programme
South African Journal of African Language, volume 37, issue 2 (2017), pp. 203-209
"The trade publishing sector in South Africa produces books primarily in English and Afrikaans, which is not representative of the spread of languages spoken in the country. In particular, there are very few books published for general readers in the local African languages. The Indigenous Language
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El libro en cifras: Boletín estadístico del libro en Iberoamérica
Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2017), 20 pp.
"Undécimo número de El libro en cifras, que apareció por primera vez en junio de 2012, con un objetivo: retratar en cifras la situación del libro, la lectura, las bibliotecas y el derecho de autor en Iberoamérica. Desde entonces, dos veces al año, este boletín ha venido ofreciendo informes so
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The Chicago Manual of Style
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 17th ed. (2017), xvi, 1144 pp.
"In the seven years since the previous edition debuted, we have seen an extraordinary evolution in the way we create and share knowledge. This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely
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Guide to Developing Open Textbooks
Burnaby: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 62 pp.
"The Guide to Developing Open Textbooks has been developed to assist teachers, teaching support personnel and educational technology administrators to: 1. understand the value of open education, OER and open textbooks for teaching and learning; 2. appreciate the potential value of developing an open
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Survey on Children’s Readership Preferences and Market Demands for Children’s Reading Materials in Rwanda
Save the Children (2016), 57 pp.
"A qualitative study into the readership preferences of children in Rwanda, from the perspective of over seventy children under the age of nine from around the country, and ten key publishing houses in Kigali." (Abstract)
Writing on the Wall: Disappeared Booksellers and Free Expression in Hong Kong
Hong Kong: PEN AMERICA (2016), 71 pp.
Independientes, ¿de qué? Hablan los editores de América Latina
México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica (2016), xv, 159 pp.
"Independientes ¿de qué? funciona como un decálogo breve de los obstáculos más comunes a los que una editorial independiente se enfrenta en sus inicios y, con base en la experiencia de editores independientes de diversas latitudes, propone soluciones a éstos para fungir como apoyo y fomento a
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Bibliodiversité: Manifeste pour une édition indépendante
Paris: Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer (2016), 124 pp.
"Inspiré de la notion de biodiversité, le terme « bibliodiversité » fait référence à un ensemble de publications variées dans le paysage éditorial, représentatives d'un système culturel équilibré où toutes les voix peuvent s'exprimer. Aujourd'hui, l'uniformisation des médias et la co
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Publishing & the Book in Africa: A Literature Review for 2015
Zell Publishing Consultants (2016), 39 pp.
"A review of select new literature in English that has appeared on the topic of publishing and book development in Africa published during the course of 2015. It covers books, papers in edited collections, journal articles, Internet documents and reports, interviews, as well as a number of blog post
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Arab Book Publishing
In: Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa
De Gruyter Saur (2016), pp. 1-27
"The persistence of print publishing means that librarians must continue to collect and pay attention to publishing developments in this type of material. The fractured environment and lack of unified distribution mechanisms, a situation that is only exacerbated by ongoing turmoil in the region will
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