Research Catalog

Title

• The politics of publishing in South Africa / edited by Nicholas Evans & Monica Seeber.

Publication

London : Holger Ehling Pub. ; Scottsville : University of Natal Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Evans, Nicholas.
• Seeber, Monica.

Description

viii, 300 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

The Politics of Publishing in South Africa is the first analysis of the industry that provides a social and historical context as well as treating it as of strategic importance for the further development of society. Providing insights from top industry professionals, the book examines fields as divers as copyright, the development of an indigenous book publishing industry, policies of literacy and development of African languages, electronic publishing and pressing concerns to practitioners in publishing and the media in general.

Subject

• Publishers and publishing > Economic aspects > South Africa
• Publishers and publishing > Political aspects > South Africa
• Publishers and publishing > Social aspects > South Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Section 1. Media against apartheid : books, journals, magazines, newspapers. The politics of book publishing in South Africa : a critical overview / Phaswane Mpe & Monica Seeber -- Alternative publishing in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s / Dick Cloete -- Publishing for the people : the alternative press 1980-1999 / Guy Berger -- Section 2. Language, writing, identity, publishing. From colonialism to democracy : writers and publishing in South Africa / Andries Oliphant -- Publishing and perishing : books, people and reading in African languages in South Africa / Nhlanhla Maake -- Section 3. Considerations for the future. Academic publishing in South Africa / Eve Gray -- 'A textbook as cheap as a can of beer' : schoolbooks and public education in South Africa / Nicholas Evans -- 'We will publish what you deem to be great' : a dialogue about trade publishing and its readers in South Africa / Nicholas Combrinck & Maggie Davey -- Transform, support, stimulate : professional development in the book publishing industry 1990-2000 / Laura Czerniewicz and Monica Seeber -- How digital technologies are transforming book publishing / Steve Kromberg -- Protecting the publishing industry : reprographic reproduction rights administration as strategy and tool for national book publishing development / Monica Seeber.

ISBN

• 0953726215
• 0869809873 (University of Natal Press)

OCLC

45860254

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library