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Nigeria's Farafina Books publishes books by Africans for Africans.

This:

Simidele Dosekun, chief operating officer (COO) of Kachifo, who runs the day-to-day business, adds it is critical for Nigerians to publish themselves, because “For too long, we have been misrepresented by others, especially by those who came and still come with colonizing, paternalistic and exploitative agendas. We have thereby to an extent lost touch with ourselves, our histories, culture and realities.”

Wishing them every success.

2 years ago

Recent research has shown that, in the US, it is those who are already the biggest readers that buy the most electronic books. They are not replacing physical books with electronic ones because, after all, they have a large number of physical books available to them, whereas there are still only a few digital books; they have taken to digital books as a new way of reading that is additional to the physical book.

Will the book enter the digital age? An interview with Pascal Fouche, Eurozine.

A very long but thoughtful, nuanced, non-hyperbolic discussion on the publishing industry’s future.

2 years ago

Rogue agent Andrew Wylie "threatens" to publish up to 2000 e-books on his own if traditional publishers refuse to play nice.

The FT article is behind a registration wall, but anyway, traditional publishers are apparently unfazed, claiming that Wylie has limited bargaining power because authors’ contracts cover e-book rights since the 1990s.

2 years ago