"Developed at a fourteen-week training course at the International Rice Research Institute, this manual – designed primarily for use in developing countries and which has also been used for training courses in Africa – discusses editorial and publishing procedures with the emphasis on practical
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matters. The book includes concrete examples, checklists, and questions and exhortations to the students. Although now somewhat dated, this training manual remains one of the best introductory guides to book publishing." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2475)
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"This manual describes simple printing methods that can be used with home made equipment. There is advice on when it is easier to use a commercial printer and on how to set up a print shop." (Catalogue Intermediate Technology Publications 2000)
"In this booklet, we describe in some detail the successful Liberian experiment, and suggest ways in which other countries may organize a similar project through their Information Ministry or other development agency. The third part of the booklet, is a simple "how-to-do-it guide for the editor/publ
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isher of a mimeo newspaper It is, in fact, an elementary manual for the journalist who has had no professional experience, and is in a form suitable for reprinting and wide distribution to the staffs of the rural papers. The mimeo newspaper is, admittedly, a rudimentary form of publishing, technically limited by the capacity of the equipment used. It is none the less significant for all that, and in passing, it should be noted that with skill and care, a professional looking paper can be produced. The important thing, however, is that this method of production enables a means of expression and establishes a small business enterprise, years before it would be economically possible with conventional printing plant. On the basis of the Liberian experience, it is estimated that a paper could be established with an initial outlay of as little as $100, and that it could provide a living for its owner/editor from the outset. This is a beginning from which a publisher and a community might aspire to progress until the time when a printed broadsheet can be produced by a professional staff on a modern printing plant." (Preface)
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"Paper for printing purposes (other than newsprint) and writing paper: production, main trends, production in each continent — Exports and imports: main exporting countries, comparison between exports and imports — Second work in a series of Unesco studies concerning the previous situation and t
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he future demand for paper." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1702, topic code 141)
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"The long-term growth in the world demand for newsprint is assured. No one can foretell the rate of expansion or the demand levels likely to be established in ten or twenty years. If the estimates for newsprint consumption given in Chapter V for the medium term are accepted, world demand should at l
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east be 10 million tons by 1955. According to these estimates the regional distribution would be as follows:- North America, 5 millions tons; Europe 3 million tons; Latin America 600,000 tons; Asia 750,000 tons; Russia 300,000 tons; Oceania 250,000 tons; Africa and Near East 150,000 tons. A large speculative element attaches to these estimates, but insofar as they err they are likely to do so on the low side. In particular the conservative assumption made for North America may have to be modified. The significant point is that, on virtually any showing, the demand for newsprint in the medium term is certain to exceed both current world production at 8 million tons and existing world capacity estimated at 9 million tons a year. Full utilisation of idle newsprint capacity amounting to 1 million tons would probably end the present newsprint shortage. But it would be sanguine to expect that every ton of idle plant can, in fact, be used, or that 100 per cent capacity operations can be attained soon. The chances are that by the time production in the under-employed newsprint industries is raised to capacity, demand may also have risen. Although the world shortage of papermaking materials may be less serious than was at one time feared, local shortages are likely to persist, especially in regions where increasing demands for all classes of printing papers, generated by industrialisation, the spread of literacy and the growth in political consciousness, have stimulated the establishment of new pulp and paper industries." (Conclusion, page 110)
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