"A pilot edition of a new, freely accessible reference resource, Publishing & Book Culture in Africa: A Repository of Selected Resources, was launched in April 2022, and subsequently updated and expanded in October of that year. A final edition is to appear on the soon to be launched website of the new ‘Publishing & Book Culture in Africa Network’ sometime during the course of 2023. As is demonstrated by the extensive listings of new literature in the repository, much continues to be written about the formidable challenges facing the book industries in Africa today, and the repository aims to provide quick access to key literature about the many aspects of book culture, and publishing and book development in Sub-Saharan Africa generally; and at the same time provides a kind of mapping of the past. The initial pilot edition offers access to over a thousand fully and critically annotated records, published through to the end of September 2022. At this time, scope and coverage is limited to literature about publishing, book development, and book history and culture in anglophone sub-Saharan Africa. It is hoped that the repository can be expanded in the future by the inclusion of new material on a regular and systematic basis; collected, analysed, and written up by way of collaborative curation of the repository. It is also anticipated that select literature on the book industries in francophone Africa, and North Africa, can be added to the repository at some point in the future." (Introduction)