"Presents the baseline data of quantitative research undertaken into the reading, book reading, and book buying habits of South Africans from the age of 16. The survey was commissioned by the South African Department of Arts and Culture through the Print Industries Cluster Council (PICC), now part o
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f the South African Book Development Council. The survey, supported by a massive amount of statistical analysis in the form of charts and tables, is presented under five sectors: Reading and the research in context; South African leisure life; Reading in South Africa; Book reading in South Africa-segmenting the market, and Strategic interpretations and the way forward." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1077)
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"Estimates of the impact of libraries on reading in eight villages in Burkina Faso and costs of running libraries enable us to suggest that the cost of getting an extra book read a year varies from $.74 to $1.30, according to the size of the school in the village, and the cost of an extra school yea
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r equivalent likewise varies from $43.42 to $75.98 per year. These costs are comparable to the costs of increasing schooling, and suggest the desirability of more careful assessment of the choice between schooling and book availability." (Abstract)
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"Der chinesische Leser der 90er Jahre kann das Angebot einer zumindest ökonomisch in weiten Teilen liberalisierten und vor allem pluralisierten Buch- und Verlagslandschaft und eines sich entwickelnden Buchmarktes nutzen. Vor dem Hintergrund dieses Strukturwadnels werden die Leseintensität, die Les
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emotivation und das soziale Image des Lesens sowie der Einfluss der soziodemographischen Verhältnisse auf das Lesen in der VR China untersucht. Materialgrundlage hierzu sind u.a. eine Umfrage unter der Pekinger Stadtbevölkerung und Interviews mit Vertretern des chinesichen Buch- und Verlagswesens." (Klappentext)
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"Cette étude et cette bibliographie traitent des attitudes africaines à l'égard du livre, des habitudes de lecture et des politiques de promotion d'une culture de la lecture. La bibliographie fournit des détails sur 218 références bibliographiques, la plupart en français, mais aussi un bon no
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mbre d'articles et d'autres documents en anglais. Chaque entrée fait l'objet d'une annotation descriptive assez complète." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2172)
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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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"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)
"Résultat d'une enquête menée par les auteurs à la demande du ministre français de la coopération — Les modes de diffusion du livre — Le public et ses goûts et les moteurs de l'évolution culturelle sont successivement passés en revue." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use
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of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1010, topic code 19)
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