"Die Medienentwicklung und die entscheidenden Züge der nationalsozialistischen Medienpolitik werden in den Bereichen Verlagswesen, Presse und Journalismus, Rundfunk sowie Film und Kino dargestellt. Erstmals werden dabei die deutschen Entwicklungen zu jenen im faschistischen Italien und franquistisc
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hen Spanien in Beziehung gesetzt. Darüber hinaus fragt das Buch nach den Erfolgen, Brechungen und Hemmnissen politischer Steuerung des gesamten Mediensystems und nach dem Raum von Öffentlichkeit unter diktatorischen Bedingungen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"In Rwanda, Save the Children collaborated with education ministries, publishing industry stakeholders, schools, book sellers and libraries in order to strengthen existing systems and increase output and availability of quality local language children’s books. This ‘whole chain’ approach addre
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sses every step of a book’s journey from authorship to child and emphasizes the need for sustainable, profitable industries which will guarantee availability of local-language, contextually relevant reading materials to support a culture of reading in the long term." (Introduction)
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"Reviews the activities and achievements of a number of African book trade and book promotional organizations, thereafter examines the progress that has been achieved in some areas affecting the book sector, and discusses issues such as the World Bank as a major player in African publishing, digital
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media and African publishing, Internet access by the African book professions, collaboration and knowledge sharing, production quality, research and documentation, and African books in the international market place. The author concludes “while two or three decades ago it might have been correct to describe African publishing as extremely underdeveloped, this is certainly not the picture now. It is true of course that many formidable obstacles and challenges remain, including weak technology infrastructures, high distribution costs, the lack of coherent national book policies, high tariff barriers, illiteracy, extreme poverty, and little disposable income, among them. Nevertheless, significant gains have been made, and there have been several collective efforts to build capacity. Not all of them have been successful, and there have been many setbacks and disappointments too, notably APNET, but it is vital to build on the gains. While both governments and donors have heavily invested in education over the years, support for the book sector and library development, paradoxically, has remained quite dismal for the most part. Sadly, thirty-five years after the Ife conference, most African governments still don’t seem to appreciate that a flourishing book and reading culture is central to, and an indicator of, development in any country." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, nr. 2521, online at http://www.hanszell.co.uk/pbrssa/index.shtml)
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"Underperformance of the Arabic book translation industry is attributable to (among other factors) severe coordination failures. This is a state of affairs in which the inability of the different agents (translators, book publishers, suppliers, customers, and supporting organizations, state, and so
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forth) to coordinate their behavior (choices) leads to suboptimal outcomes. Since the economic performance of the translation industry often involves complementary investments whose return depends on other investments being made by other agents, coordination is crucial. Obviously, neither market forces nor the state have undertaken this coordination activity sufficiently. The Arabic book translation industry seems to suffer from both market failure and government failure. In light of these results the Arabic book translation industry offers great economic potential that should be mobilized systematically in the future. This paper discusses how this can be achieved, based on a well-designed and implemented process of upgrading and innovation in companies, industries, and clusters related to translation activities. Public policy, properly understood and adequately implemented, can play an important role in this process." (Summary, page 1)
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"One in a series of collections from the Nigerian Book Fair Trust containing the opening addresses, keynote speeches, and papers presented at the Nigeria International Book Fair, held annually since 2002, each fair focusing on a special topic or topics. The theme of the 2006 book fair focused on two
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topics: "National Book Policy and Sustainable Development" and "HIV/AIDS and Sustainable Development"." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 815)
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"The article treats the two sides of book policy – prohibitive and creative, on the example of the Republic of Estonia. If the earlier period of book history was dominated by persecution of authors and prohibition of books, then the contemporary democratic societies manifest freedom of expression,
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stimulating the dissemination of the most diverse ideas." (Abstract, page 10)
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"In many countries, dedicated plans and policies have been implemented to increase and develop the book publishing sector. In these interventions, books have been recognised as unique products deserving different and exceptional interventions. The salient issues pertaining to book development includ
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e: investment in local authorship and translations; adequate copyright protection; financial assistance to the private sector through subsidies, incentives etc. in various forms; identifying the factors influencing the cost of books and developing strategies to reduce these; securing the necessary political will so that the sector is afforded priority status; human resource development. A South African policy would need to include the above issues, and specific attention would also need to be paid to those factors that would ensure the active participation of those previously marginalised." (Executive summary, page 7-8)
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