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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
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Implementing constitutional language provisions through the Indigenous Language Publishing Programme
South African Journal of African Language, volume 37, issue 2 (2017), pp. 203-209
"The trade publishing sector in South Africa produces books primarily in English and Afrikaans, which is not representative of the spread of languages spoken in the country. In particular, there are very few books published for general readers in the local African languages. The Indigenous Language
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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
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
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The African University Press
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
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The Chicago Manual of Style
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 17th ed. (2017), xvi, 1144 pp.
"In the seven years since the previous edition debuted, we have seen an extraordinary evolution in the way we create and share knowledge. This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely
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Online-Marketing und E-Commerce für Buchverlage
Frankfurt am Main: Bramann (2017), 165 pp.
"Das klassische Marketing wird heutzutage durch verschiedene Möglichkeiten der Internetkommunikation und der digitalen Medien ergänzt, die über alle Sparten hinweg in zunehmendem Masse relevant werden. Im vorliegenden Band, der den Titel 'Verlagsmarketing' von Ulrich Huse in idealer Weise ergänz
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Publishing & the Book in Africa: A Literature Review for 2016
Zell Publishing Consultants (2017), 74 pp.
"This is the second in a series of annual reviews of select new literature in English that has appeared on the topic of publishing and book development in sub-Saharan Africa. Extensively annotated and/or with abstracts, the present list brings together new literature published during the course of 2
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What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
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
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Guide to Developing Open Textbooks
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
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Writing on the Wall: Disappeared Booksellers and Free Expression in Hong Kong
Hong Kong: PEN AMERICA (2016), 71 pp.
The Scramble for Textbooks in Tanzania
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
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Publishing & the Book in Africa: A Literature Review for 2015
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
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Inside De Caliphate's Classroom: Textbooks, Guidance Literature, and Indoctrination Methods of the Islamic State
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
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Survey on Children’s Readership Preferences and Market Demands for Children’s Reading Materials in Rwanda
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)
Arab Book Publishing
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
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