The Classroom of the Future was a much talked about theme at this years Frankfurt Book Fair. The Fair was open to the public on the last two days and youth, dressed up in their favourite literary or comic book characters flooded into the Fair. The classroom of the future was a key point of interest. The installation portrayed a vision of the future where small groups of children worked together on nine explorative tours in five different subject areas where they created machines out of LEGO, scanned seashells to be printed in 3D, and told their own stories using sound. The whole installation was led by a hybrid textbook of the future, and it is this small detail that is most exciting. Read more

From as little as 30 attendees and almost no funds in 2014, the Eastern Cape Book Festival (ECBF) has grown to 200 literary-hungry attendees in 2015 with the promise of big things still to come. We spoke to Selome Payne, festival co curator and owner of Poetree Publications about what the buzz is all about and what the future holds.

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The publishing director of Jonathan Ball Publishers, Jeremy Boraine gives us five reasons why books in SA are so expensive. Read more on Publishing Perspectives.

In 1951, Pam and Pauline Joseph, wife and mother of the late Philip Joseph respectively, opened a small secondhand bookshop in King George Street, Johannesburg and called it Exclusive Books.  Read more

Annually On the Dot Pamphlets visits their depots to ensure data quality and operational efficiencies, this year was no different, although this year the team engaged with all depots but selected a number of depots to be visited to ensure that we have provided our clients with the most up-to-date and accurate data set available.

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