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The business of books 2015: an overview of market trends in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America
Contributor(s): Carlo Carrenho Contrib.; Licher, Veronika; Kovac, Miha; Mallya, Vinutha
Frankfurt am Main:
Frankfurt Book Fair
(2015) rev. and updated ed., 14 pp.
"The Business of Books 2015" looks at the developments and driving forces shaping the international book business today. The study provides data, in most cases going back between five and 10 years, to give the readers a more comprehensive understanding of today’s situation. In particular, the repo...
Beyond books: how publishing is converging with the global information and entertainment business
Frankfurt am Main:
Frankfurt Book Fair
(2015), 15 pp.
"This report explores how, in recent years, the book publishing industry has transcended limitations of format, scope, reach and audience, and has overcome its own culture and traditions, to integrate itself in the creation, production, distribution and consumption of media content, worldwide. It dr...
Buchmarkt, Buchindustrie und Buchmessen in Deutschland, Spanien und Lateinamerika
Berlin; Münster:
Lit
(2015), 313 pp.
ISBN 978-3-643-12219-3
"Die spanische und lateinamerikanische Literatur und ihre institutionelle und mediale Vermittlung in den deutschen Buchmarkt sind Gegenstand des vorliegenden Bandes. Die Interferenzen zwischen dem spanisch- und dem deutschsprachigen Literaturbetrieb werden von ausgewiesenen Experten aus Wissenschaft...
Reading habits in Armenia: results of a survey on readership carried out in December 2012
[no publisher]
(2012), 60 pp.
"About 39 percent started to read regularly at elementary school age, and 44 percent at primary and high school age. As compared to the last five years, 37 percent of respondents stopped reading completely, 43 percent read less, 6 percent read as much as they read before, and only 14 percent said th...
No shelf required: e-books in libraries
Chicago:
American Library Association
(2011), xiii, 182 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-8389-1054-2
Dicionário do livro: da escrita ao livro electrónico
Coimbra:
Almedina
(2008), 1285 pp., bibliogr. p.1251-1285
ISBN 978-972403499-7
Other Editions: Sao Paulo: EDUSP, 2008, 768 p.
Textbooks and school library provision in secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa
Washington, DC:
Africa Region Human Development Department Secondary Education in Africa (SEIA) World Bank
(2008), xxxii, 98 pp., 12 tables, abbrev. p.xi-xv, bibliogr. p.97-98
ISBN 978-0-8213-7344-6 (print); 978-0-8213-7345-3 (ebook)
CC BY
"This World Bank study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its distribution and publishing. The study’s objective was to analyze the issues and provide some options and strategies for improvement. Reforms are urgently required in the ...
Toward literate societies: publishing in local languages
In: Educational publishing in global perspective: capacity building and trends
Shobhana Sosale (ed.)
Washington, DC:
World Bank
(1999), pp. 24-33
Other Editions: Shortened version, “Publishing in African Languages in Francophone Africa” in: African Publishing Review 9, no. 2 (2000), p.12-14
"An analysis of publishing in African languages in four countries of francophone Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal), where the Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (German Foundation for International Development, now part of GIZ), in cooperation with other agencies, has be...
The writer's reference guide to Spanish
Austin:
University of Texas Press
(1999), vii, 274 pp., bibliogr. p.263-268, index
ISBN 0-292-72512-4 (pbk)
"This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication. The book covers these major areas: language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation; language conventions: abbreviations, professional and personal titles, nam...
Buchlandschaften: das BuchMarktBuch 2
Wien:
Buchkultur Verlagsgesellschaft
(1998), 197 pp.
ISBN 3-901052-36-4
Cost-effectiveness of publishing educational materials in African languages
London:
Working Group on Books and Learning Materials Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)
(1997), x, 131 pp., index
ISBN 1-901830-00-4
Other Editions: also published in French
"The five case studies on the cost-effectiveness of publishing educational materials in national and local African languages, published in this volume, were commissioned in 1996 on behalf of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) by its Working Group on Books and Learning ...
Litterature d'Afrique noire: les conditions de production et de circulation du livre de 1960 a nos jours
Paris:
Doctoral Thesis Université Paris-Nord
(1992), 619 pp.
"Cette recherche propose un bilan statistique de la production litteraire africaine et une analyse des conditions materielles et economiques de production et de circulation des textes, tous deux revises a la lumiere des facteurs sociologiques et ideologiques qui les influencent." (Résumé)
Cameroon: book market research
London:
International Book Development (IBD)
(1990)
Study on book provision in Kenyan education
London:
Overseas Development Administration (ODA)
(1990), 77 pp.
Egypt: a survey of books and journal markets and the Egyptian book trade
London:
International Book Development (IBD)
(1990)
El libro en Bolivia: situación y perspectivas
Santa Fe de Bogotá:
Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC)
(1989), 90 pp.
El libro en el Ecuador: situación y perspectivas
Santa Fe de Bogotá:
Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC)
(1987), 65 pp.
El libro en el Perú: situación y perspectivas
Santa Fe de Bogotá:
Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC)
(1986), 56 pp.
Roads to reading
Paris:
UNESCO
(1979), 141 pp., bibliogr. p.129-141
ISBN 92-3-101642-3
Other Editions: also published in French and Spanish
"The present publication is an attempt to report on various practical methods adopted throughout the world to promote and develop the reading habit among those literate populations that read little or nothing at all. The countries surveyed represent the major geographic regions of the world and illu...
For books
Paris:
UNESCO
(1974), 74 pp.
ISBN 92-3-101147-2
Other Editions: also published in French and Spanish
"The aim of this booklet is, by briefly showing the diversity of the tasks undertaken, to survey the multiform but deliberately concerted and co-ordinated activities which, while centred on books as their main theme, none the less converge on the development of man and the fulfilment of his biologic...
