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
E-learning content is now available in many forms. This article attempts to survey what is generally available and what can be sold by educational booksellers in South Africa. Read more
Development in and access to ICT hardware and software is expensive. Prohibitively so for the majority of the population. As a result, students turn to free resources as and when opportunity allows. Read more
Sales of physical books in South Africa have grown by 2.47% in 2015 based on value but have declined by 6.38% based on volume compared to 2014 for above mentioned period. Read more
Writer of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go set a watchman, Harper Lee has passed away on Friday, 19 February at the age of 89. The SA Booksellers Association would like to pay tribute to this great woman.
A pop-up art-book installation floating just northwest of Downtown L.A. in the city’s Echo Park Lake is proving that when it comes to libraries, if you build it, people will come. The custom-made eight-by-eight-foot wooden raft that comes equipped with shelves on the sides was set up by artist Sarah Peters. TheTreading material on the Floating Library includes nearly 80 handmade books created by both local and national artists and authors. Read more on takepart.
Editions at Play, a joint e-books publishing venture between Google Creative Lab Sydney and the design-driven publishing house Visual Editions, which launched this week. With the mission of reimagining what an e-book can be, Editions at Play brings together the author, developers, and designers to work simultaneously on building a story from the ground up. They are the opposite of the usual physical-turned-digital-books; rather, they’re books that “cannot be printed.”
The concept reminds me a bit of those adventure stories my brother used to read when we were young where you could choose different paths through the book. Check out Fast Company’s article on it here.
Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu today unveiled the DigiTruck; a solar-powered, mobile multi-purpose IT unit funded by Deloitte Belgium which will bring ICT innovation and education to rural and vulnerable communities which would have previously been dependent on the electrical grid.
Read more here.
BBC World Book Club will be at the Book Lounge to record one of their popular programmes on the 10th March. The World Book Club invites the globe’s great authors to discuss their best known novel. This monthly programme, presented by Harriett Gilbert, includes questions from World Service listeners. Tan Twan Eng will be in Cape Town to discuss his novel The Garden of Evening Mists.
Organisers have asked that readers interested in attending the event will have read the book as the show is an interactive one, and depends on questions being put by audience members to the author. They ask that those who are going to participate each send in one question that they would wish to ask the author. The BBC will also be bringing in questions that have been submitted from around the world.
The programme will air on 7th May.
Contact the BookLounge if you would like to participate via email at: booklounge@gmail.com
With little over a month to go until World Read Aloud day on the 24th of February, Rebecca Bellingham reminds us of the importance of reading aloud to kids. Read more about Rebecca on TedX Talks.
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