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International Publishing Today: Problems and Prospects

Manuel Salvat (honoured person)
Delhi: Bookman's Club (1984), 237 pp.
"An anthology on international publishing including such aspects as freedom to publish, publishing for human development, international book fairs, piracy, children's publishing, global problems of scholarly publishing, educational publishing, and - specifically for developing countries - training a ... more

Books and Reading in China

Paris: UNESCO, Book Promotion and International Exchanges Division (1983), 43 pp.

Le livre et la lecture en Yugoslavia

Paris: UNESCO, Book Promotion and International Exchanges Division (1983), 73 pp.

A Select Bibliography: Book Publishing and Related Subjects - 1982

Karachi: UNESCO Regional Office for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific (1982), 85 pp.
"Contains more than 900 entries on book publishing, including development and promotion; production processes like composition, copy preparation, editing; distribution; marketing; bookselling, copyright; graphic arts, lithography; paper, printing; seminars and training courses; typography; general a ... more
"One of a series of background materials prepared for the World Congress on Books held in London in 1982. Deals with the various stages of textbook publishing, which is the mainstay of the book industry in most less developed countries. Discusses the difficulties faced by both government and private ... more

Books in Brazil: A History of the Publishing Trade

Metuchen, New Jers.: Scarecrow Press (1982), 485 pp.

Books and Reading in Kenya

Paris: UNESCO (1982), 55 pp.
"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 ... more

The Book Today in Africa

Paris: UNESCO (1981), 210 pp.
"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 ... more
"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 ... more

A Select Bibliography of Books About Books

Karachi: UNESCO Regional Office for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific (1978), 89 pp.
"Contains about 600 entries on various aspects of books, from authorship to readership." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1692)
"Based on the findings of a detailed survey of publishers in various parts of the developing world, this classic study identifies the key problems for the book industries in the countries of the South. Offers a general picture of the state of publishing in each of the regions, including Africa, and ... more

Perspectives on Publishing

Lexington, Mass.; Toronto: Lexington Books (1976), 283 pp.

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 ... more
"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 ... more