"Published shortly after the ending of apartheid, this was an important collection containing 17 papers by educationists and publishers. It offered fresh insights, and a comprehensive analysis of how South African textbooks are produced, and suggests ways in which the industry could transform itself in order to provide more, better, and cheaper books for South Africa's post-apartheid education system. The book concludes with a list of twelve recommendations "A Vision for Educational Publishing in South Africa", setting out a framework and a range of guidelines that might govern the practices of educational publishing in South Africa, and it would be interesting to compare this vision with the reality today, almost ten years later." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1036)