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The African University Press

François van Schalkwyk, Thierry M. Luescher

Cape Town: African Minds (2017), 62 pp.

"A holistic way of approaching the question of how African university presses can reposition themselves in support of the broader shift of some African universities towards a greater focus on research, is to consider shifts in the dominant institutional logic in the academic publishing industry. Bas ... more

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Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors: Common Scenarios with Guidance from Community Practice

Brianna L. Schofield, Robert Kirk Walker

Authors Alliance (2017), 99 pp.

"Nonfiction authors often use existing materials in their works: A historian excerpts a soldier’s letters to a loved one; an art critic reproduces a telling detail in a painting; a scientist quotes from a well-known article. Readers of nonfiction works expect new writing to reference and incorpora ... more

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What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

(ed.) Peter Ginna

Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2017), 310 pp.

"[This book] gathers essays from twenty-seven leading figures in book publishing about their work. Representing both large houses and small, and encompassing trade, textbook, academic, and children's publishing, the contributors make the case for why editing remains a vital function to writers–and ... more

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Needs Assessment: Strengthening Indigenous Academic and Digital Publishing in Tanzania

Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2017), 7 pp.

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Textbook Provision for All: Lessons Learned from the General Education Quality Improvement Project (GEQIP)

Girma Woldetsadik, Chandrani Raysarkar

Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2017), xiv, 40 pp.

"Ethiopia printed more than 78 million textbooks for 20.1 million students under GEQIP1. When the current reliance on development partners to provide teaching/learning materials comes to an end, these impressive gains can be sustained only if the Ethiopian government allocates adequate, predictable ... yearly financing from the treasury to do so. Based on the experience of GEQIP1, the average budget to sustain the provision of textbooks and teaching guides is estimated at 6–8 percent of the yearly recurrent budget for education (8–10 percent if supplementary materials are added). A second prerequisite for sustaining these gains is to develop an effective information management system to track national demand for textbooks in relation to supply and facilitate inventory control. To handle the complexities of international competitive bidding and maintain a strict timeline for routine delivery, the MoE should plan a robust capacity-building exercise that will help Ethiopia not only to manage textbook provision for larger linguistic groups but mainstream access to textbooks for minority groups as well. Lack of expertise and limited production facilities of local publishers and printers have required the government to resort to international alternatives, sometimes to the detriment of local enterprises. Given that it would be preferable to rely on local suppliers to produce teaching/learning materials of comparable quality to those produced internationally, a systematic effort is essential to scale up local capacity and enable the local printing industry to become competitive in supplying national requirements. As in many nations, Ethiopia’s weakest link in the textbook supply chain is the distribution system. Schools in rural and remote areas suffer the most. Restructuring the delivery system would ensure more timely distribution of teaching/learning materials from districts (woredas) to schools. Finally, students must be encouraged to bring their textbooks to school rather than keep them at home for fear of damaging them and incurring fines. Teachers, who are the primary facilitators of learning, must be trained in effective handling of textbooks and to play an active role in sensitizing families to the importance of using textbooks in the classroom." (Main findings, page xiv) more

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El libro en cifras: Boletín estadístico del libro en Iberoamérica

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2017), 20 pp.

"Undécimo número de El libro en cifras, que apareció por primera vez en junio de 2012, con un objetivo: retratar en cifras la situación del libro, la lectura, las bibliotecas y el derecho de autor en Iberoamérica. Desde entonces, dos veces al año, este boletín ha venido ofreciendo informes so ... more

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Estudio diagnóstico del sector editorial del Perú

Bernardo Jaramillo

Lima: Cámara Peruana del Libro; Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2017), 135 pp.

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Les défis de la promotion et de la distribution des livres en langues africaines. Actes du colloque, Conakry 27 au 28 novembre 2017 – INRAP, Donka

Aliou Sow

Conakry: Éditions Ganndal (2017), 22 pp.

"Le colloque poursuivait les objectifs suivants : dresser un état des lieux de l’édition et de la politique du livre en langues nationales dans les pays participants au colloque; exposer et discuter de la pertinence, de l’utilisation, et de la portée de certains alphabets introduits dans les ... more

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Inside De Caliphate's Classroom: Textbooks, Guidance Literature, and Indoctrination Methods of the Islamic State

Jacob Olidort

Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2016), xii, 76 pp.

"The study is divided into three parts, the first of which describes the Islamic State’s publishing house, Maktabat al-Himma, and its activities and offers a rough chronology of when the group published various works. The second part examines the group’s classroom textbooks, drawing comparisons ... more

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Survey on Children’s Readership Preferences and Market Demands for Children’s Reading Materials in Rwanda

Hannah Mathews

Save the Children (2016), 57 pp.

"A qualitative study into the readership preferences of children in Rwanda, from the perspective of over seventy children under the age of nine from around the country, and ten key publishing houses in Kigali." (Abstract)

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Arab Book Publishing

Christof Galli

In: Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa

De Gruyter Saur (2016), pp. 1-27

"The persistence of print publishing means that librarians must continue to collect and pay attention to publishing developments in this type of material. The fractured environment and lack of unified distribution mechanisms, a situation that is only exacerbated by ongoing turmoil in the region will ... more

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Writing on the Wall: Disappeared Booksellers and Free Expression in Hong Kong

Hong Kong: PEN AMERICA (2016), 71 pp.

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Guide to Developing Open Textbooks

Andrew Moore, Neil Butcher

Burnaby: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 62 pp.

"The Guide to Developing Open Textbooks has been developed to assist teachers, teaching support personnel and educational technology administrators to: 1. understand the value of open education, OER and open textbooks for teaching and learning; 2. appreciate the potential value of developing an open ... more

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Publishing & the Book in Africa: A Literature Review for 2015

Hans M. Zell

Zell Publishing Consultants (2016), 39 pp.

"A review of select new literature in English that has appeared on the topic of publishing and book development in Africa published during the course of 2015. It covers books, papers in edited collections, journal articles, Internet documents and reports, interviews, as well as a number of blog post ... more

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The Scramble for Textbooks in Tanzania

Sonia Languille

African Affairs, volume 115, issue 458 (2016), pp. 73-96

"In 2014, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) government in Tanzania decided to discontinue the market-based system for textbook provision that was established in the early 1990s and revert to full state control. Drawing on the theory of political settlements and the literature on Tanzania's industrial po ... more

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National Survey Into the Reading and Book Reading Behaviour of Adult South Africans 2016

South African Book Development Council; TNS (2016), 103 pp.

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Coming of Age: Strides in African Publishing, Essays in Honour of Dr Henry Chakava at 70

Kiarie Kamau, Kirimi Mitambo (eds.)

Henry Chakava (honoured person)

Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers (2016), xxvii, 288 pp.

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Bibliodiversité: Manifeste pour une édition indépendante

Susan Hawthorne

Paris: Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer (2016), 124 pp.

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Contra viento y marea: Iniciativas gubernamentales que forjaron lectores en América Latina

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2016), 51 pp.

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Evolución y tendencias digitales en Latinoamérica

Bookwire (2015), 43 pp.

"Este documento ofrece una serie de cifras y perspectivas claves para ayudar a los profesionales del sector editorial de todo el mundo a entender la transformación que está teniendo lugar en los mercados en idioma español y portugués, así como las oportunidades de negocio derivadas de dicha tra ... more