"This is a major study on publishing in South Africa, providing an in-depth analysis of the book industry, reviewing its social and historical context, and examining its role as a strategic industry in South Africa's future development. With contributions by some of the country's leading book professionals and practitioners, the book examines fields such as policies of literacy and development of African languages, academic publishing, writers and publishing, reading promotion, new digital technologies and their impact on publishing, and issues relating copyright and reproduction rights. There are also some interesting papers on alternative publishing, and the alternative press, under the former repressive apartheid regime." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1002)