"The editors attempt to provide "comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information, in both English and French, on libraries, publishers and the retail book trade, research institutions with publishing programs, book industry and literary associations, major periodicals and newspapers, government a
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s well as commercial printers, throughout Africa, South Africa excepted for the last name group." In all, 4,621 institutions and organizations are represented. Data varies according to the type of organization or institution and completeness and accuracy also vary because, the editors tell us, 45 percent of addresses failed to update their entries or retum the questionnaire. These cases are indicated with a dagger or asterisk. Even so, it provides a formidable amount of information. Librarians proved the best respondents; consequently data about libraries is more likely to be the most complete. Arrangement is alphabetical by country. Appendixes include a subject index to special libraries and to periodicals and magazines, and listings of book clubs, awards and principal dealers in African books in Europe and the U.S. Text is in English and French." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1127)
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"An examination of '' [...] the position of books in the service of international understanding and international trade in books, including distribution networks and problems. It then turns to the standards that have been set and other measures to liberalize the flow of books." (Introduction). A lon
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g list of various kinds of information is given: facts and figures on production, exports and imports, and trade by category of book; distribution networks and problems, such as rights, language, transport charges, and quotas and frontier formalities; brief descriptions of agreements that set standards, such as the Berne and Universal Copyright Convention; and measures to ease the flow of books, such as GATT, UNCTAD, the UNESCO Coupon Scheme, the Universal Postal Union, the International Air Transport Association, government initiatives, and activities by book professionals. Contains a select bibliography." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1121)
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"One of a series of national monographs on the state of books and reading in a number of countries, in order to provide book professionals and the interested public with detailed surveys of matters relating to authorship, publishing, material production and distribution of books and reading. This mo
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nograph by the Managing Director of Heinemann Educational Books (East Africa) sets out the position of the book in Kenya: language policies, authorship, publishing and printing, distribution, training and the legal and institutional framework for publishing. Now inevitably rather dated, but still useful as an overview of the emergence of indigenous publishing in Kenya." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 591)
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"Sam Kotei’s book was one of the first major in-depth studies on the state of the book and publishing in Africa, in which the author looked back on a decade of special efforts to alleviate the “acute shortage of books” identified at the UNESCO meeting on books in Accra in 1968. The author note
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s that progress was uneven and that many of the problems identified in 1968 still remained, although African publishing had generally made “impressive strides”. The author surveyed the available literature, questioned writers, publishers, printers, libraries, bookshops, national book development councils, and interviewed book industry professional in several African countries in order to produce this overview of the situation in the 1970s and 1980s. Concludes with an examination of the future prospects of the book industry in Africa. Kotei’s book remains a seminal study, not least for purposes of comparison as it relates to the growth of the African book industries since the 1980s." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 290)
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"Presents an overview of the problems and prospects of publishing in the Third World and includes a fairly comprehensive bibliography. In two parts, the first discusses major trends in the literature on publishing in the Third World and the second is the bibliography, listing books and journal artic
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les in French, English, Spanish and German arranged by country, region and by subject, with cross-referencing. Cites 969 references." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 170)
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"Utilise des entretiens avec le public, les éditeurs locaux et les distributeurs de livres afin de trouver des moyens d'améliorer le développement de la lecture en Afrique, d'une part, et une distribution plus efficace de matériel de lecture approprié, d'autre part. L'accent est mis sur le Tcha
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d et le Sénégal." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 379)
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"Discussion of the creation, manufacture, distribution and promotion of books in indigenous languages in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Arab countries and Latin America. Appendixes include "Guidelines for the Promotion of Books in the Various Languages of Multilingual Countries" and a bibliogranhy." (Ele
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anor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1063)
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A selected guide to publishers, distributors and booksellers in Latin America, with informations on specialists, branch offices, names of owners or managers, etc.
"La Conférence générale de l'Unesco a décidé de convoquer une série de réunions régionales sur la promotion et la distribution du livre, dont la première consacrée à l'Asie s'est réunie à Tokyo, du 25 au 31 mai 1966. Dans le présent document, on trouve le rapport de cette réunion (pp.
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5-32) ; rapport dans lequel on traite des problèmes relatifs à la promotion du livre en Asie. Estimation des besoins de la région, production, promotion et distribution, circulation internationale des livres, formation, recherche et associations professionnelles. Dans la deuxième partie de cet ouvrage, on a reproduit l'essentiel du principal document de travail de la réunion, qui donne une analyse statistique de la situation actuelle en Asie, ainsi que des projections de besoin futur." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1826, topic code 19)
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