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Book development in national communications and planning

Karachi: UNESCO Regional Centre for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific (Pakistan) (1975), 113 pp.
"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 ... more

The Book Hunger

Paris; London: UNESCO;Harrap (1973), 155 pp.
"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 ... more
"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 ... more

Book, Textbook and Library Development: A Selected List of References for A. I. D. Technicians

Washington, DC: USAID. Bureau for Technical Assistance. Office of Education and Human Resources (USA) (1970), 36 pp.
"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 ... more

A Book Development Project in Nigeria 1964-1968

New York: Franklin Book Programs (1968), 248 pp.

Die Revolution des Buches

Wolf Dieter Bach (transl.)
Gütersloh: Bertelsmann (1967), 143 pp.
"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 ... more

Publishing in Mainland China

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (1966), 83 pp.
"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 ... more

The Book Revolution

London; Paris: Harrap;UNESCO (1966), 160 pp.
"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 ... more

Un Libro per Tutti

Nigrizia (Verona), volume 84, issue 1 (1966), pp. 10-14
"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 ... more

La révolution du livre

Paris: UNESCO;Presses Universitaires de France (1965), 163 pp.
« 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 ... more
"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. ... more

Books in East Africa

New York: Franklin Book Programs (1964), 16, 9 pp.
"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)