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Reading for All in Africa: Building Communities Where Literacy Thrives

Arua E. Arua (ed.)

Newark, Del.: International Reading Association (2003), xvii, 178 pp.

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Publishing in Cambodia

Helen Jarvis, Peter Arfanis

Phnom Penh: Publishing in Cambodia Project, preliminary ed. (2002), 173 pp.

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Changing Lives: Promoting a Reading Culture in Africa. Indaba 2001. Harare, Zimbabwe 4-5 August, 2001

Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust (2002), 310 pp.

"The theme of the 2001 Indaba at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair was devoted to “Changing People’s Lives: Promoting a Reading Culture in Africa”, and this volume brings together 34 of the papers that were presented, together with a record of some of the discussions that took place followi ... more

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Lesen in der Volksrepublik China: Eine empirisch-qualitative Studie zu Leseverhalten und Lektürepräferenzen der Pekinger Stadtbevölkerung vor dem Hintergrund der Transformation des Chinesischen Buch- und Verlagswesens 1978-1995

Christina Neder

Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde (1999), 318 pp.

"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 ... more

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Medienkinder: Vom richtigen Umgang mit der Vielfalt

Ulrich Eicke, Wolfram Eicke

Frankfurt am Main: Büchergilde Gutenberg (1997), 268 pp.

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Publishing in Africa: One Man's Perspective

Henry Chakava

Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers; Bellagio Publishing Network (1996), 182 pp.

"A collection of articles by one of Africa's most prolific commentators on the African publishing scene, bringing together his writings on diverse topics, such as autonomous publishing, book marketing and distribution, author-publisher relations, regional cooperation, the World Bank and African publ ... more

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Publishing and Book Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Annotated Bibliography

Hans M. Zell, Cécile Lomer

London: Hans Zell Publishers (1996), x, 409 pp.

"Contains over 2,200 entries covering books, serials, reference sources, reports, papers in edited collections, book-sector studies and similar documents, and periodical articles drawn from literature published in over 360 journals and magazines. Most entries have a short annotation. Supplementary v ... more

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Agenda for Development: The Future of Third World Christian Publishing

Alec Gilmore

London: SPCK Publishing (1996), xv, 472 pp.

"An extensive discussion of the role of Christian publishers in book provision, and Christian publishing and book distribution in the countries of the South. It examines pertinent issues under three major areas of activity: (1) general Christian publishing, covering, for example, the problems of cre ... more

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On Printed Matter and Beyond: Media, Orality and Literacy

Kees Epskamp

Den Haag: Centre for the Study of Education in Developing Countries (CESO) (1995), 136 pp.

"In fact this paperback is about narration and about text in whatever form: spoken, written or printed. Or even better, this book is about the importance of narrative art. It therefore invests all kinds of storytelling, not only the person-to-person oral tradition, but also the mediated forms of sto ... rytelling. Is taken for granted that the radio is giving an extra dimension to the spoken word, like books are giving an extra dimension to the printed word, or the cinema or television are connecting texts and visuals again, like woodcut printings have done in the past. Stories from the oral tradition found their way to the mass media like movies, radio and television. Therefore a wide variety of media will be discussed in this book without showing any preference for one medium or another. The focus of interest is more on storytelling then on de media used to tell stories. It is about the athletics of words and the flexible relatedness between the various media. All these media make use of characters to present stories. Therefore characters with stereotyped traits are present in every medium that makes use of narrative or dramatic elements like comic books, photo novels and soap operas. Mass media have been taking over the role of traditional storytelling. Nowadays, it seems as if instead of listening to an individual storyteller, the global community sits down and have stories told by their favourite radio plays and television series like situation comedies and soap series. Some social scientists strongly reject this change in media consumption. They regret the changing patterns in spending leisure time. They regret for example the supposed decline of reading habits which has been considered as an effect of changing media consumption. And they are not the only ones to regret this. On the one hand there are the educationalists worrying about the latest statistics on literacy rates. These figures certainly do not show any worldwide improvements in literacy and numeracy. And there are the publishers too, who regret the declining reading habits. On a global scale the selling of books and other printed matter is at a decline. With an expanding media market, people are spending their leisure time in a more varied way leaving them less time to read. However, despite this conclusion the educational system in whatever country cannot do without a structured transfer of knowledge. And it seems that the most effective medium within the educational system still is the written word, being presented to the people by printed materials. Learning children as well as adults to read and write is the main preoccupation of as many multilateral aid organisations as national governments." (Pages 10-11) more

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Youth Culture in Late Modernity

Johan Fornäs, Göran Bolin (eds.)

London: Sage (1995), 198 pp.

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See, Judge, Act: A Media Kit for the Community Worker

Madras: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1995), 108 pp.

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Media and Developement: Themes in Communication and Extension

M. R. Dua, V. S. Gupta

New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications (1994), 176 pp.

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Historia del libro en Chile

Bernardo Subercaseaux

Santiago: Editorial Andrés Bello (1993), 253 pp.

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Lectura y medios de comunicación de masas

Laura Constancia Sandroni

Bogotá; Buenos Aires: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC); Instituto Colombiano de Cultura (Colcultura); Aique Grupo Editor (1992), 135 pp.

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Le livre et la lecture en Roumanie

Joan Dragan, Angela Popescu-Bredicini

Paris: UNESCO (1986), 60 pp.

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Books and Reading in Tanzania

Walter Bgoya

Paris: Book Promotion and International Exchanges Division UNESCO (1986), 76 pp.

"One of a series of national monographs on the state of books and reading in a number of countries, published 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 readi ... more