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Publishing in Africa in the Seventies: Proceedings of an International Conference on Publishing and Book Development Held at the University of Ife, Ife-Ife, Nigeria, 16-20 December, 1973
Ile-Ife: University of Ife Press (1975), 377 pp.
"The recommandations, summaries of the various sessions, and a selection of the papers read at this conference attended by more than 100 African writers, publishers, booksellers, librarians, printers, and teachers give a succinct account of the history and hopes of African publishing. Among topics d
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Publishing in India: An Analysis
New York; Dehli: Oxford University Press (1975), 115 pp.
"In spite of the emphasis on India in the title, the author treats all Third World countries, but specifically deals with India by using it as a case study to examine historical development of the industry, its economics, its distribution, copyright, "public" and "private" publishing, foreign influe
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Book development in national communications and planning
Karachi: UNESCO Regional Centre for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific (Pakistan) (1975), 113 pp.
"This publication, entitled Book Development in National Communications and Planning, comprises of a basic paper on the role of National Book Development Councils in overall national communication policies and development planning and the two studies on which it is based, namely, Books for the Rural
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"A brief survey of the role of the book in developing countries in terms of needs, demand, production, distribution, and copyright. An appendix gives the "charter of the book." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 992)
Books About Books: An International Exhibition on the Occasion of the International Book Year 1972
Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurt Book Fair (1972), 390 pp.
This bibliography contains 1395 titles sent by publishers from all over the world to the "books about books" exhibition at the 1972 Frankfurt book fair. The major part comes from from German-language countries; however, titles from Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere are also included. All titles are
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The Book Trade of the World. Vol. I: Europe and International Section
New York: Bowker (1972), 543 pp.
"A country-by-country systematic description of some of the basic facts about book publishing which are necessary to know in order to conduct business on an international level and useful other purposes as well. Each country gives information about itself under the following categories: general, his
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Book Development in Africa: Problems and Perspectives
Paris: UNESCO (1969), 37 pp.
"A historically important document, this was one of the earliest studies on publishing and book development in Africa. It consists of a report of a meeting of experts on book development in Africa, convened by UNESCO and held in Accra in February 1968. Delegates to the conference examined in detail
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A Book Development Project in Nigeria 1964-1968
New York: Franklin Book Programs (1968), 248 pp.
Die Revolution des Buches
Gütersloh: Bertelsmann (1967), 143 pp.
"Obwohl als Fortsetzung von Barkers Books for All (1956) gedacht, bemüht sich der bekannte französische Soziologe in 'Die Revolution des Buches' nicht um eine Aktualisierung der Statistiken, sondern konzentriert sich auf allgemeine Trends und das Schicksal des literarischen Buches auf dem Massenma
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Un Libro per Tutti
Nigrizia (Verona), volume 84, issue 1 (1966), pp. 10-14
"In Africa si sta creando un mercato per il libro cartaceo, con i suoi grandi vantaggi - Il linguaggio semplice, i prezzi modesti e un sistema di distribuzione intelligente garantiranno il successo di questi libri." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing c
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"Although intended as a sequel to Barker's Books for All (1956), The Book Revolution, by a well-known French sociologist, makes no effort to update statistics but rather focuses on broad trends in general and the fate of the literary book in the mass market in particular. The result is a series of p
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Publishing in Mainland China
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (1966), 83 pp.
"This study attempts to analyze the organization of book and periodical publishing in China from 1949 to the end of 1964, with particular reference to publications in the naturel, applied, and social sciences." Introduction. It gives as much information as could be obtained from sources at Hong Kong
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La révolution du livre
Paris: UNESCO; Presses Universitaires de France (1965), 163 pp.
« Bien que conçu comme une suite à Books for All (1956) de Barker, 'Le livre dans le monde', écrit par un sociologue français bien connu, ne s'efforce pas de mettre à jour les statistiques, mais se concentre plutôt sur les grandes tendances en général et sur le sort du livre littéraire dan
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Books in West Africa: Report and Recommendations
New York: Franklin Book Programs (1964), 44 pp.
"Assesses socioeconomic, geographic, and other conditions in East and West Africa as they relate to the possibility of setting up an indigenous book publishing and distribution system." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr.
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Books in East Africa
New York: Franklin Book Programs (1964), 16, 9 pp.
"Assesses socioeconomic, geographic, and other conditions in East Africa as they relate to the possibility of setting up an indigenous book publishing and distribution system." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1010)
