"The fourth and final volume of the Book Trade of the World, a series of books that aimed to provide a convenient reference tool to the world's publishing and bookselling industries, and to the institutions, organizations, and journals which are associated with them. The information on each country
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is contributed by a leading authority in the field and is presented under 35 thematic headings. The African volume contains an extensive introductory essay by Hans Zell, and an index to all four volumes in the series, compiled by Caroline Bundy. While now inevitably very dated, the books is still useful as source showing the historical development of the book trade in African countries, from the earliest times up to the period of the early 1980s." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 318)
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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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