Inkleurboeke vir grootmense het onlangs geweldig gewild geraak, soveel so dat daar gewaarsku is teen ‘n tekort aan inkleurkryte. (Lees meer hieroor op Independent.) Vivus het onlangs berig oor die voordele wat inkleur vir grootmense inhou wat insluit die verskerping van oplettendheid en kreatiwiteit. Lees die volledige artikel hier.
The longlists for the 2016 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award have been announced.
Click on the links above to view the complete lists.
Jacob Dlamini won last year’s Alan Paton Award for Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle and Damon Galgut won the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize for Arctic Summer.
The shortlists will be announced on Saturday, May 14 at the Franschhoek Literary Festival.
Today is the final day of the Digital Book World conference in New York City. Lucky for those of us who could not attend, the Publishing Perspectives team was there and Porter Anderson has and will be posting insightful pieces on the take home points from the conference. Interestingly enough, the feedback from the first day, which focused on the children’s market, is that children are “highly attached to physical books” and that they find locating good content on digital platforms difficult. Check out Porter’s feature piece here.
Waterstones Managing Director James Daunt spoke to Publishing Perspectives in a wide-ranging interview that included the debate over Europe, the design of the chain’s new Tottenham Court Road store in central London and the differences between the UK and US book markets. Daunt comes across as a devoted book enthusiast, passionate about physical bookselling and determined to continue the turnaround of the UK’s leading specialist book chain. It is a lovely piece about a man that is passionate about growing the business and selling more books. He reminds me very much of Benjamin Trisk and his attitude to all the Exclusives Book stores in SA.
A busy year lies ahead of the book lovers and literary fans with exciting not to be missed events.
The Bookmark calendar is a handy piece to print out or save to make sure you don’t miss anything in 2016. Click on the image above to download it now.
Interesting article on Takepart.com that discusses the education problems in the United States and their links to literacy. The issues with illiteracy and previously disadvantaged and poor communities echoes those that we face in South Africa.
“Education policy analysts agree that mastering reading by the end of third grade is a critical touchstone for young learners. That grade is the turning point between learning to read and reading to learn. Students who miss that benchmark are up to four times more likely to drop out of high school. Among struggling readers, the dropout rates are twice as high for African American and Latino students as they are for white students,” reads the article by former White house correspondent Joseph Williams. Read more
Today (24 February 2016) marks one of the most important dates on the literacy calendar, World Read Aloud Day. A day set out to raise awareness of the importance of reading aloud across the world.
This year, beloved singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and humanitarian Yvonne Chaka Chaka has teamed up with Nal’ibali to lend her voice to World Read Aloud Day. You can join Yvonne and readers from all over the world too in this massive global drive – just by reading aloud!
Read more about the campaign here.
South African Library Week (SALW) 2016 is upon us being launched on 11 March in KwaZulu-Natal by the Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture and celebrated up to Human Rights Day on 21 March, the anniversary of the massacre at Sharpeville of 69 people who gave up their lives in the fight for fundamental human rights to life, equality and dignity. Read more
The SA Booksellers Association would like to thank our members for their longterm support and commitment to the bookselling trade in South Africa. The Executive and the office administrator works hard to ensure that your membership fees are put to good use and to ensure that all our members experience the benefit of being a member of the SA Booksellers Association. Please do get in touch with us should you like to give us any input / requests. Read more
In academic bookselling for higher education, we have some of the most very well-informed Customers with regards to technology and especially the internet as a resource. Some of our best Customers are computer science students who will gatecrash our website just to critique. Read more
