NEW PUBLICATIONS
compiled by Rachel Wiggans
Samdef Roster of Media and Business Experts
1999, Methaetsile Leepile (ed.), ISBN 99929340X, 241pp. 1998, Southern
Africa Media Development Fund, Private Bag B02, Gaborone, Botswana.
Tel +267 580951, fax +267 561199, e-mail: Samdegls@info.bw web: http://www.misanet.org
This directory lists over 170 experts operating
in southern Africa, in fields including business management, journalism,
newspaper management, editing, desk-top publishing, graphic design and
printing.
African Publishing Review, ISSN 10297618 1998
APNET, Harare. Annual subscription inside Africa $30/£20 (airmail
$35/£25), outside Africa $50/£35 (airmail $60/£40)
from APNET, PO Box 3773, Harare, Zimbabwe. Tel +263 4 706196/7, fax
+263 4 705106, e-mail: apnet@harare.iafrica.com
Vol. 7 No. 3 focuses on training for African publishers
with articles on the history of training, the work of the African Publishing
Institute, existing training facilities in Africa and training workshops
available.
Vol. 7 No. 4 includes articles on the book trade
in Africa and promoting buying and selling. Vol. 7 No. 5 includes an
article on textbook policies in Tanzania, Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya and
Zimbabwe.
APNET Consultants Register 1998-1999,
ISSN: 10297618 94pp 1998, APNET, Harare, $20 pb. Available from
APNET, PO Box 3773, Harare, Zimbabwe. Tel +263 4 706196/7, fax +263
4 705106, e-mail: apnet@harare.iafrica.com
The African Publishers Network Consultants Register
will prove invaluable to those wanting to identify publishing expertise
on the continent. The Register provides contact and professional details
for 66 African publishing consultants, listed by country, and indexed
by name and by specialisation. The 30 specialisations include bookselling,
children's books, copyright, design, distribution, electronic publishing,
finance, editing, librarianship, management, marketing, printing, production,
publishing training, scholarly publishing, translation and writing.
The African Publishers Networking Directory
1999/2000, ISBN 0952126931 80pp forthcoming March 1999, African
Books Collective Ltd. Limited quantities available free to the African
book communities. Others and outside Africa $30/£18. Distributed
by African Books Collective Ltd., details p.19.
The expanded third edition of this useful directory
lists over 420 major publishers in Africa, alphabetically by country
and by publisher. Included for each are: full names and addresses; telephone,
fax, e-mail and Website details; year founded; ISBN prefix; contact
name; chief executive; rights contact; number of titles in print; average
number of new titles published annually; overseas distributors; representatives/local
agents; languages of publication; nature of publisher's list and publisher's
area of specialisation. 45 African book trade organisations are also
listed with contact details, principal objectives, publications, meetings
held and training offered. The directory includes contact details for
20 African book trade journals, published in Africa and elsewhere.
An Introduction to Publishing Management,
Ian Montagnes, ISBN 1901830063 124pp 1998, Association for the Development
of Education in Africa (Perspectives on African Book Development 5),
London, $21.50/£11.95 pb. Distributed by African Books Collective
Ltd., The Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HU, England.
Fax +44 1865 793298, e-mail: abc@dial.pipex.com, on-line ordering: http://www.africanbookscollective.com .
With the liberalisation of textbook publishing
policies in much of Africa, and the increasing integration of the private
sector in the supply of textbooks to government-financed schools, great
possibilities are opening for the development of indigenous publishing
industries. This introduction to publishing management is by a highly
respected publishing practitioner and theorist. He sets out the basics
of efficient, economical and prudent management of time and money in
publishing, with a view to equipping African publishers with techniques
that will contribute to success, whether they are tendering for contracts
or competing in a completely open market. While much of the emphasis
is on textbooks, the principles apply to all types of publishing, and
to most countries of the world. The premise is that managers need not
be skilled in every area of publishing, but do need to know enough about
each area to ask the right questions about strategies, costs and cost
recovery. Also available in French.
African Publishing Review, ISSN 10297618,
1998, APNET, Harare. Annual subscription inside Africa $30/£20
(airmail $35/£25) outside Africa $50/£35 (airmail $60/£40)
from APNET, PO Box 3773, Harare, Zimbabwe. Tel +263 4 706196/7, fax
+263 4 705106, e-mail: apnet@harare.iafrica.com
Vol. 7 No 2 includes articles on producing science
books in Africa, popularising science, reading amongst young people,
north-south publishing partnerships, The KAWI (Science for Africa) project.
African Books in Print/Livres Africains Disponibles,
Hans Zell (editor), Cécile Lomer (associate editor), ISBN
1873836961 c.1,900pp 2 volume set, forthcoming March 1999, Bowker-Saur,
East Grinstead, c.£350. Bowker-Saur, Maypole House, Maypole Road,
East Grinstead, RH19 1HU, England. Tel +44 1342 330100, fax +44 1342
330193, e-mail: custserv@bowker-saur.com
New fifth edition with full bibliographic and
acquisitions data on almost 30,000 titles published in 43 African countries,
by more than 1,100 publishers and research institutions with publishing
programmes. Also included are publications from professional associations,
learned societies, NGOs, university departments and many more. Includes
titles in English, French and some 120 African languages.
Zimbabwe Books in Print, 3rd edition, ISBN
1779180004 195pp 1998 Zimbabwe Book Publishers' Association, Harare,
$33.00/ £18.50. Distributed by African Books Collective Ltd.,
The Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HU, England. Fax +44
1865 793298, e-mail: abc@dial.pipex.com, on-line ordering: http://www.africanbookscollective.com
This third edition lists books in print in Zimbabwe
at the end of 1997. The Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association previously
produced Books in Print to the end of 1994, and a separate directory
of Zimbabwe publishers. This new edition combines an updated directory
of publishers. The books in print are arranged by author and title listings,
and a subject index. The subject index is divided into three sections:
primary textbooks, secondary textbooks and general books. Full bibliographic
information is given: author, title, date of publication, number of
edition, series, price, publishers names, and ISBN.
Books and Children. Proceedings of the ZIBF
Indaba 1998, ISBN 079741925X 260pp 1998, Zimbabwe International
Book Fair Trust, Harare, $16.00/£8.95 pb, available from ZIBF
Head Office, PO Box CY 1179, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe. Fax +263 4
702129, e-mail: zibf@samara.co.zw. Distributed by African Books Collective
Ltd., The Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HU, England.
Fax +44 1865 793298, e-mail: abc@dial.pipex.com, on-line ordering: http://www.africanbookscollective.com
.
The annual Zimbabwe International Book Fair is
the crossroads for all parts of the African book communities. The Indaba
preceding the book fair has become the meeting place for interested
parties from Africa, Europe, the US and the rest of the developing world.
The 1998 theme of the fair and Indaba was `Books and Children'. These
56 papers, report-backs and discussions are all presentations or events
at the 1998 Fair. The over-riding message is that there is a reading
culture in Africa, but a shortage of books available for children in
Africa. The papers are grouped in five parts: those from the plenary
sessions; policy; children's literature; scholarship and research; and
access and technology.
A Handbook for Writing Skills, Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang,
ISBN 9964302010 145pp 1998, Ghana Universities Press, Accra, $13.75/
£7.50. Distributed by African Books Collective Ltd., The Jam Factory,
27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HU, England. Fax +44 1865 793298, e-mail:
abc@dial.pipex.com, on-line ordering: http://www.africanbookscollective.com
The author is a senior lecturer in English at
the University of Cape Coast. She has taught in the communicative skills
programme since its inception in 1989, and was a tutor at the writing
workshop at York University, Toronto. Currently researching literature
by women from Ghana, she here sets out in detail what writers need to
know about writing skills. She draws upon her personal experience, and
provides detailed guidance. The book is a step-by-step handbook covering
reading, note-making and note-taking, basic sentence patterns, subject-verb
agreements, ambiguities, the academic essay, paragraphing, composing
the introduction and conclusion, punctuation, documentation, footnotes
and bibliography.
A Bibliography of Publishing and the Book Chain
in Sub-Saharan Africa - 1997, Hans M. Zell (editor), ISBN 190183008X
82pp 1998, Association for the Development of Education in Africa (Perspectives
on African Book Development 6), London, $30.00/£16.75 pb. Distributed
by African Books Collective Ltd., details p. 19.
This second annual supplement to Publishing and
Book Development in sub-Saharan Africa: An Annotated Bibliography, published
in 1996, covers for the most part listings for 1997, selectively recording,
annotating and classifying new literature on the book chain in sub-Saharan
Africa. The 251 entries cover new serials, books, reference sources,
reports, papers in edited collections, periodical articles, book sector
studies and similar documents, and a select number of unpublished papers
and documents. The 1997 annual bibliography now also includes a number
of Internet documents. The material is generally arranged by topic,
but is indexed both by subject, and by country/region, and author.
Educational publishing in global perspective
- capacity building and trends, Shobhana Sosale (editor), ISBN 0821342541
229pp 1998, The World Bank, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433,
USA. Tel +1 202 477 1234, fax +1 202 477 6391, e-mail: books@worldbank.org.
These papers from a seminar on `Understanding
the educational book industry' organised by the World Bank in September
1997, focus on: policies for the provision of educational materials;
finance and book trade issues; procurement, protection and copyright;
the role of publishing partnerships; and the publishing industry in
the twenty-first century. They centre predominantly on publishing in
Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Contributors include representatives from publishing
houses, publishers' associations, bilateral and multilateral donors
and lenders, and funding foundations, and the papers reflect the strong
criticisms made at the seminar of the World Bank's textbook procurement
procedures as inherently deterring the emergence of local private publishing
capacities and the smooth distribution of books. Since the seminar was
the first of its kind within the context of Bank lending for education,
the page on `lessons of experience for World Bank support for textbook
components' is especially welcome; it is helpful to know the knowledge
and ideas that potentially shape policy.
Creative Writing - A Handbook, Norma Kitson,
ISBN 0949229482 134pp 1997, Baobab Books, Harare $13.75/£7.50
pb. Distributed by African Books Collective Ltd., details below.
Written in a simple and straightforward style,
this practical handbook contains hints and information on the writer's
diary, writer's block, conflict and tension, discipline, flashbacks,
plots and themes, character and dialogue, description and imagery, poetry,
the novel, and short story writing. Exercises and examples accompanying
each chapter are drawn from workshop participants and published writers,
introducing the reader to a wide range of different styles and works
of literature. The author, a founder member of Zimbabwe Women Writers,
is herself a noted writer. [BPN, No. 24, 1998.]
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