"The International Broadcasting Audience Research Department (IBAR) of the BBC World Service presently commissions representative sample surveys of the adult populations of more than 20 different countries each year. Surveys reported in this compilation published first time in 1993 provide detailed
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information on the spread of radio and television in countries for which such data are otherwise difficult to obtain. The 1993 edition contains the only nationally representative radio and television surveys in Indonesia, Ghana and Senegal. Other surveys include Mozambique, Angola, Fiji and Nepal. The 1994/5 edition presents a report on the growth of audiences for satellite television in India, audience surveys in Macedonia, Albania, India, Kenya, Nigeria, the Czech Republic and Romania." (Catalogue Libbey 1995)
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"Réunit les débats et discours prononcés lors de l'assemblée générale de 1994 des membres de l'Association des éditeurs du Bénin, abordant diverses questions relatives à l'édition, à l'écriture et au développement du livre au Bénin." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Sa
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haran Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 424)
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"The papers from a 1983 symposium on 'Culture and the Book Industry in Nigeria', although not published until ten years later. Arranged in three parts, it contains 16 papers on various aspects of the state of the book in Nigeria in all its dimensions: writing and authorship, orality, literacy, reade
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rship, library development, academic publishing, and book distribution. It is preceded by an introduction, and an eloquent keynote address delivered at the symposium by Jibril Aminu, entitled "Books into Peoples." The collection also contains some papers on author-publisher relations, publishing in Nigerian languages, and production and distribution of scholarly journals." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 780)
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"There are very few books on copyright in Africa, and this one provides a good general overview of the principles of copyright in all its dimensions. It includes sections on duration of copyright, copyright protection, rights of authors (and those in the performing arts), and procedures for copyrigh
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t registration. The author – a barrister, who was formerly the Acting Copyright Administrator in Ghana – draws on a number of case histories and examines individual cases of copyright infringement. There is also a description of the work of the Copyright Society of Ghana (COGSA), now CopyGhana." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1746)
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"Following his experiences in the production of soap operas Miguel Sabido of Televisa (Mexico City) developed a theory as well as practical guidelines for entertainment-education soap operas. Such entertainment education soap operas like "Ven conmigo" and "Acompañame" have been very popular in Mexi
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co and other parts of Latin America. Sabido's entertainment-education strategy has also been utilized in countries as India, Kenia, Nigeria, Brasil, Jamaica and Indonesia. The book describes the theory of Sabido, explains how to utilize it in the design of education messages, and explains how the audience effects of this approach can be measured. The author is the International Information Manager at Televisa (Mexico City), where she has worked with Miguel Sabido since 1989. She edits Televisa's semimonthly newsletter about worldwide entertainment-education trends in television and cinema business." (CAMECO Media Forum 3/95)
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"A selection of some of the best analytical writings on African and Third World publishing and book development. Contains 12 contributions on publishing in Africa, most reprinted from The African Book Publishing Record, including some individual country studies." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & R
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eading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 214)
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