"This publication, entitled Book Development in National Communications and Planning, comprises of a basic paper on the role of National Book Development Councils in overall national communication policies and development planning and the two studies on which it is based, namely, Books for the Rural
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Areas of South Asia and Guidelines for Book Development in South and South-East Asia. As a whole, these give a comprehensive overall picture of the book situation in Asia which is hopefully intended to evoke and stimulate essential public and private sector responses resulting in further concerted national efforts in the development of the book industry trade." (Introduction)
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"A brief survey of the role of the book in developing countries in terms of needs, demand, production, distribution, and copyright. An appendix gives the "charter of the book." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 992)
This bibliography contains 1395 titles sent by publishers from all over the world to the "books about books" exhibition at the 1972 Frankfurt book fair. The major part comes from from German-language countries; however, titles from Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere are also included. All titles are
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annotated and classified into 16 groups: the author; copyright; publishing problems in detail; book production; book distribution; book promotion; the reader, reader habits; bibliophily, book collecting; book and paper history; book and art; book statistics; bibliography; documentation; audiovisual subjects; library science; book trade journals.
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"A country-by-country systematic description of some of the basic facts about book publishing which are necessary to know in order to conduct business on an international level and useful other purposes as well. Each country gives information about itself under the following categories: general, his
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tory, retail prices, organization, the trade press, book trade literature and address services, sources of information, international membership, market research, books and young people, taxes, clearing houses, training, copyright, national bibliographies and national libraries, book production, translation, book clubs, paperbacks, design, publishing houses (not a listing), literary agents, wholesale trade, retail trade, mail order, antiquarian book trade and auctions, imports, exports, book fairs, public relations, bibliophilism, literary prizes, book reviews, and miscellaneous. Obviously, not all of these facts were filled out by every country, and in a few cases, countries failed to reply at all, but nevertheless the total adds up to a great deal of data. In addition, the first volume has an international section in which much of the information in that volume is summarized under these same categories." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1005)
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"A historically important document, this was one of the earliest studies on publishing and book development in Africa. It consists of a report of a meeting of experts on book development in Africa, convened by UNESCO and held in Accra in February 1968. Delegates to the conference examined in detail
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the problems facing book development in Africa, looking at the role of books in economic and social development, suggesting measures to promote book production in the general and educational publishing sectors, as well as considering aspects such as the distribution, promotion, and the international flow of books." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3rd. ed. 2008, nr. 321)
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"Obwohl als Fortsetzung von Barkers Books for All (1956) gedacht, bemüht sich der bekannte französische Soziologe in 'Die Revolution des Buches' nicht um eine Aktualisierung der Statistiken, sondern konzentriert sich auf allgemeine Trends und das Schicksal des literarischen Buches auf dem Massenma
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rkt im Besonderen. Das Ergebnis ist eine Reihe von provokanten Essays über die Entwicklung der Belletristik in verschiedenen Ländern." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1042)
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"This study attempts to analyze the organization of book and periodical publishing in China from 1949 to the end of 1964, with particular reference to publications in the naturel, applied, and social sciences." Introduction. It gives as much information as could be obtained from sources at Hong Kong
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about the structure of the industry, the size of publishing houses, the relative amounts of literature published in minority and foreign languages, and the relative amounts published by subjects. It also deals with distribution systems - retail, direct, and through libraries. Contains four appendixes, a bibliography, and an index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1085)
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"Although intended as a sequel to Barker's Books for All (1956), The Book Revolution, by a well-known French sociologist, makes no effort to update statistics but rather focuses on broad trends in general and the fate of the literary book in the mass market in particular. The result is a series of p
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rovocative essays about the way in which belles lettres fare in various countries." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1042)
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"In Africa si sta creando un mercato per il libro cartaceo, con i suoi grandi vantaggi - Il linguaggio semplice, i prezzi modesti e un sistema di distribuzione intelligente garantiranno il successo di questi libri." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing c
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ountries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1965, topic code 19)
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« Bien que conçu comme une suite à Books for All (1956) de Barker, 'Le livre dans le monde', écrit par un sociologue français bien connu, ne s'efforce pas de mettre à jour les statistiques, mais se concentre plutôt sur les grandes tendances en général et sur le sort du livre littéraire dan
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s le marché de masse en particulier. Le résultat est une série d'essais provocateurs sur la façon dont les belles lettres se portent dans différents pays. » (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1042)
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"Assesses socioeconomic, geographic, and other conditions in East and West Africa as they relate to the possibility of setting up an indigenous book publishing and distribution system." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr.
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1011)
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"Assesses socioeconomic, geographic, and other conditions in East Africa as they relate to the possibility of setting up an indigenous book publishing and distribution system." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1010)