It is almost time for the annual Franschhoek Literary Festival. A number of early evening events have been added to the lineup of the 2015 FLF, offering festival goers a relaxing and entertaining wind-down before heading off for dinner.
The media often depicts Millennials as interested in games and apps more than reading, as entirely digitally focused, and as connecting with their peers exclusively through social media, but is that picture accurate? According to new research by publishing industry software and service provider Publishing Technology, Millennials are not as digitally inclined as earlier thought.
In celebrating 100 years of contributing to education in South Africa on 25 March 2015, Oxford University Press Southern Africa (OUPSA) has launched its flagship centenary campaign, “Every child deserves a dictionary”. The campaign will see the educational publisher donating 20,000 dictionaries to schools across South Africa that would otherwise not have the funds to buy such an important and valuable resource.
Preparations for the South African Book Fair 2015, to be held in Johannesburg for the first time, are well underway. It promises to bring to Jozi a literary festival like no other, and will be held at the beautiful and historic Turbine Hall in Newtown on 31 July – 2 August 2015.
“Is SA keeping up with the global trends regarding the e-book?” This was the main point of discussion at this year’s Digital Technology Summit. The summit, hosted by the South African Book Development Council, took place on the 18 and 19th of March in Pretoria. The aim of this summit was to work towards a coherent digital strategy that serves the needs of all producers and users of books – individual readers of all ages, the book industry, institutions (libraries, educational bodies, corporates and others) and government.
Download the presentations and photos here.
At the recent Digital Summit held 18-19 March 2015 in Pretoria, a representative of the National Department of Basic Education presented the department’s draft national digital strategy. The department will be inviting input from all stakeholders.
The underground library, a tiny one-room house with precast walls and a corrugated iron ceiling, was started after its chairperson Neo Mathetsa realised most young people of school going age in his community could not read. He then turned his one-roomed house, hidden behind his mother’s four-room house, into a library.
Frank Schembari loves books — printed books. He loves how they smell. He loves scribbling in the margins, underlining interesting sentences, folding a page corner to mark his place.
Schembari is not a retiree who sips tea at Politics and Prose or some other bookstore. He is 20, a junior at American University, and paging through a thick history of Israel between classes, he is evidence of a peculiar irony of the Internet age: Digital natives prefer reading in print.
Read more on The Washington Post
An application for the Bookmark magazine has been in the pipeline for ages and our dream has finally come true! With the generous sponsorship from Snapplify, Bookmark now has an App available on both Android and IOS. Download and read all the previous and latest versions of Bookmark for free on the Bookmark Magazine App.
A big thanks again to Snapplify for the offer and support.
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A busy year lies ahead of the book lovers and literary fans with exciting not to be missed events. On the radar we’ve got all the well known events like the Franschhoek Literary Festival in May and the South African Book Fair in July, but also some exciting new events with the first Indie Book Fair in South Africa taking place in March.
The Bookmark calendar is a handy piece to print out or save to make sure you don’t miss anything in 2015. Click on the image above to download it now.
