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International Publishing Today: Problems and Prospects
Delhi: Bookman's Club (1984), 237 pp.
"An anthology on international publishing including such aspects as freedom to publish, publishing for human development, international book fairs, piracy, children's publishing, global problems of scholarly publishing, educational publishing, and - specifically for developing countries - training a
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Réflexions sur la promotion du livre Africain
Lomé: Editions Akpagnon (1984), 118 pp.
"Réflexion sur le statut du livre en Afrique et analyse des nombreuses difficultés rencontrées lors de l'écriture, de la publication et de la distribution de livres en Afrique. L'auteur, qui est un éditeur togolais de premier plan, soutient avec force que la production de livres est une entrepr
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Publishing and Book Development in Africa: A Bibliography = L'édition et le développement du livre en Afrique: Une bibliographie
Paris: UNESCO (1984), 143 pp.
"The earliest version of the bibliography, superseded by the 1996 volume, lists titles by topic and region, and includes author, subject, geographical indexes. Cites 685 references, and includes an introductory essay in English and French. It is now also available online, and contains a number of ci
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Books and Reading in China
Paris: UNESCO, Book Promotion and International Exchanges Division (1983), 43 pp.
Books in Brazil: A History of the Publishing Trade
Metuchen, New Jers.: Scarecrow Press (1982), 485 pp.
Books and Reading in Kenya
Paris: UNESCO (1982), 55 pp.
"One of a series of national monographs on the state of books and reading in a number of countries, 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 reading. This mo
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A Select Bibliography: Book Publishing and Related Subjects - 1982
Karachi: UNESCO Regional Office for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific (1982), 85 pp.
"Contains more than 900 entries on book publishing, including development and promotion; production processes like composition, copy preparation, editing; distribution; marketing; bookselling, copyright; graphic arts, lithography; paper, printing; seminars and training courses; typography; general a
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The Future of the Book. Part II: The Changing Role of Reading
Paris: UNESCO (1982), 34 pp.
Textbook Production in Developing Countries: Some Problems of Preparation, Production and Distribution
Paris: UNESCO (1982), 66 pp.
"One of a series of background materials prepared for the World Congress on Books held in London in 1982. Deals with the various stages of textbook publishing, which is the mainstay of the book industry in most less developed countries. Discusses the difficulties faced by both government and private
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The Future of the Book. Part I: The Impact of New Technologies
Paris: UNESCO (1982), 115 pp.
Book Production and Reading in the Arab World
Paris: UNESCO (1982), 50 pp.
The Book Today in Africa
Paris: UNESCO (1981), 210 pp.
"Sam Kotei’s book was one of the first major in-depth studies on the state of the book and publishing in Africa, in which the author looked back on a decade of special efforts to alleviate the “acute shortage of books” identified at the UNESCO meeting on books in Accra in 1968. The author note
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Publishing in the Third World: Trend Report and Bibliography
New York: Praeger (1980), ix, 186 pp.
"Presents an overview of the problems and prospects of publishing in the Third World and includes a fairly comprehensive bibliography. In two parts, the first discusses major trends in the literature on publishing in the Third World and the second is the bibliography, listing books and journal artic
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A Select Bibliography of Books About Books
Karachi: UNESCO Regional Office for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific (1978), 89 pp.
"Contains about 600 entries on various aspects of books, from authorship to readership." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1692)
The Economics of Book Publishing in Developing Countries
Paris: UNESCO (1977), 44 pp.
"Based on the findings of a detailed survey of publishers in various parts of the developing world, this classic study identifies the key problems for the book industries in the countries of the South. Offers a general picture of the state of publishing in each of the regions, including Africa, and
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La economía de la edición de libros en los países en desarrollo
Paris: UNESCO (1977), 46 pp.
Perspectives on Publishing
Lexington, Mass.; Toronto: Lexington Books (1976), 283 pp.
