Issued Free to SABA Members – Not for Resale October 2007 - January 2008

Vol 12

Contents FEATURES REPORTS REGULARS

8 Effective Education 14 IFLA Congress Exceeds 4 From the Presidents A vision for the future Expectations Desk

10 Secrets to Success Awards put Libraries in 6 SABA National One on one with award willing book Executive Committee shops the Spotlight

12 SA’s Bookselling 16 Annual Focus on SABA 24 Industry Update Landscape The facts and figures What does SABA do for 27 Africa News you? 13 Sibongile Nzimande 28 International News KZN’z new GM for Public Libraries What’s Happening in your Sector? 32 Member Listing 18 WCED sets an Example The success of good working relationships The new Executive 35 2007 Buyers Guide Committee 20 The Next Big Seller The Golden Compass

22 26 Letters of the Alphabet Literacy against violence

Bookmark  REGULARS From the President’s Desk he Annual Meetings are over in a strict ethical framework. (See T and I would again like to thank pg 18 for an excerpt of this talk.) those of you who attended. The new School booksellers at the confer- format was very popular as it avoid- ence expressed concern about the ed a repetition of debate and enabled publishers moving into new areas of us to listen to a number of most in- direct supply and excluding book- teresting speakers. Judging from sellers from the Technical College the comments we have received, it is book market, for instance. SABA has likely that future meetings will follow decided to try to revive the LTSM the same format and I hope that we Committee which gave us the abil- will attract even more of our mem- ity to discuss book supply matters bership to the meetings that are to be at a high level within the Education held at the delightful Vineyard Hotel Department. in Cape Town in August next year. Library suppliers around the It was good this year to hear the country are beset with change. Some lively discussion on general book black suppliers said they find it promotion. The publishers are moving ahead confidently difficult to enter the market. In other areas large buyers are with the Get Caught Reading Campaign, which has been re- spreading their business much more widely, including small named ‘Whats your Story?’ and funding already committed black booksellers or traders. The association welcomes is being used to focus on the way forward. new booksellers but believes that librarians should support The project will run from the Cape Town Bookfair Offices bookshops. Many need the orders from libraries, to cover and Diane Makings will manage the campaign. The creative costs and offer a good range of books to the public, so the ideas of the VEGA advertising students and the market re- withdrawal of support undermines the genuine bookshops. search that has already been done are influencing the nature A good library system needs funding and we are disturbed to of the campaign and booksellers will need to play an impor- hear that South Africa’s richest area – Gauteng -is neglect- tant part as the campaign unfolds. This is a major project ing its libraries. (See pg 16 & 17 for a focus on Libraries.) and I encourage booksellers to give it their full support and Training new staff is important. The learnerships in KZN to help to grow our market. (See pg 22 for more on literacy were completed successfully and graduates celebrated at campaigns.) a dinner given by Lois Wagner. We need to continue this There was a presentation given by Willem Struik on the programme and hope that efforts to take the training to the Book Retail Industry Survey. His continuing research is giv- Cape and Gauteng areas are successful. ing fascinating insights. The size of the Christian book mar- Our meeting with the publishers focused on publishers’ con- ket which is almost a seventh of the General book market cerns over copyright infringement, which they believe is be- surprised some. The growth of local publishing and the mar- coming more widespread. They appealed to booksellers to ket for locally published titles pleased many. And the fact observe market rights by not importing the BookPower edi- that booksellers are responsible for only a small percentage tions, which are for sale only in designated poor countries of the total educational book market with the bulk of the or editions that are only for sale in restricted areas such as supply going through publishers who sell into distribution the Far East. They also requested booksellers to assist them centres disturbed us all. We are fortunate to have a person in reporting infringements. SABA supports the legal rights with Mr Struik’s experience pursuing retail research and of the publishers and trusts that they will ensure that illegal his information will become even more valuable as we see importation that comes to their notice is stopped. It causes trends developing. (See pg 12 for a condensed version of this difficulties for booksellers selling the legal editions if they presentation) are undercut by illegal imports. I therefore call on all our The talk by Jenny Rault -Smith drew listeners from both members to act correctly when importing. the bookselling and publishing areas. Her enthusiasm for Finally may I welcome to the National Executive the fol- reading and belief in the importance of books in education lowing new members. Caroline Nixon is the chairman of was refreshing. Booksellers from all over South Africa wish the Northern Region of SABA and Tshawe Vazi is chairman they had such champions in other education departments. of the Eastern Region. I trust they will join us in working She pointed out that the Department and the booksellers in to give to all our members a bookselling environment that the Western Cape each depend on each other and that the enables all to earn a good living. support of local booksellers is given because the booksellers are prepared to make extraordinary efforts to see that the Guru Redhi right books are supplied within strict time frames and with-  Bookmark

REGULARS BOOKMARK News Magazine of the South African Booksellers Association Editor: Jessica Hadley Grave 2 Grove Rd, Mowbray, 7700 SNationalABA Executive Committee Cape Town, South Africa Editorial and Advertising: Phone: +27 (0) 21 686 8286 President & Chairman, Central Region Email: [email protected] Guru Redhi (MG Redhi Booksellers) Subscriptions: Frikkie Nel Tel: +27 (0) 32 945 1240 Phone: +27 (0) 21 945 1572 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Design and Layout: The Font Factory Vice President & Chairman, Southern Region Printed by: Mills Litho Hentie Gericke (24/7 Books) Tel: +27 (0) 21 981 1270 Featured Writers: Jenny Rault Smith Email: [email protected] Willem Struik Jay Rangiah Secretary & Chairman, General Trade Peter Adams (Adams & Co) Reports: Tel: +27 (0) 31 304 8571 Nohra Moerat Email: [email protected] Dirk Uys Maureen Hargraves Peter Adams Honorary Treasurer & Chairman, Academic Dirk Uys (Van Schaik Bookshop) Photograhpy: Tel: +27 (0) 21 918 8400 Bookmark would like to thank everyone that sent us images Email: [email protected]

Chairman, Libraries Maureen Hargraves (Hargraves Library Services) Views expressed in BOOKMARK are not necessarily those of SABA or the Editor. All contributions are published in the Tel: +27 (0) 21 447 5682 language in which they are submitted. Email: [email protected] Full copyright is retained by the respective contributors.

Chairman, Education Joe Klaasen (Rynew Education) Tel: +27 (0) 21 951 6904 Email: [email protected] SABASABA OFFICEOFFICE Chairman, Northern Region Postal Address: SABA Caroline Nixon (CNA) P O Box 870 Tel: +27 (0) 11 491 7500 Bellville, 7535 Email: [email protected] Contact Numbers: Landline: (021) 945 1572 Cell: 083 441 9780 Chairman, Eastern Region Fax: (021) 945 2169 Clifford Vazi (Khulani Bookellers) Email: [email protected] Tel: +27 (0) 43 743 5129 Website: www.sabooksellers.com Email: [email protected] Office Hours: Monday to Thursday, 09h00 to 12h00

SABA National Manager Frikkie Nel The Executive Committee of SABA and the Editor thank all Tel: +27 (0) 21 945 1572 those who contributed to this issue of Bookmark through Email: [email protected] articles and/or advertising.

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FEATURES Effective Education A vision for the future. By Jenny Rault-Smith

Jenny Rault-Smith, Chief Director, GET educationist believed that: “The longest Africans 2007, which states that the South Curriculum and Assessment Development distance in the world is between an official African population cannot be described as for the Department of Education (DOE), ... curriculum policy and what goes on in a book reading nation, because of a lack of gives us a general overview of the the mind of a child.” Booksellers shorten books in their households. The segment education department’s vision for the that distance when they deliver valid and that is committed to books is relatively future and how SABA members can work appropriate books and textbooks to a small, i.e. one in seven people. with the department to ensure effective school. Furthermore, books are not popular education for South Africa’s youth. Textbooks are the key to empowering with leisure readers; most people read learners to take responsibility for their own newspapers and magazines. This poses a learning and for equipping them to extend challenge for us in education, because we their learning beyond the prescribed know that reading (books in particular) is 5 hours of contact time at school per the fundamental requirement for learning, day. Research has certainly shown that both initially and in life-long learning. time spent on teaching and learning Learners learn to read so that they can is equal to results, so more time spent read to learn but it is a shocking fact that on teaching and learning means better the majority of South African children results. But, we need to consider two have poor reading skills and mostly are things in respect of textbooks: firstly, the reading at levels well below what would be quality and appropriateness for learners in in accordance with their age. particular contexts and how teachers make It is therefore about processes of appropriate selections of textbooks, and developing a reading culture and a secondly, the length and complexity of text competency in information literacy. This in all learning area textbooks. Research is the responsibility of the education shows that our learners are not reading department but the provision of books extensive and complex texts equivalent to cannot simply be a commercial exercise. their peers internationally. If textbooks are We need to foster a working partnership the most common source of engagement between the DOE and SABA, in which outh Africa’s Outcome Based with text, we must ensure that the texts are SABA brings their expertise in procurement SEducation (OBE) system emphasises sufficiently demanding. and delivery of books and the Department that learners must be actively involved But for all the resources currently going provides guidance with respect to its vision in the learning process. Active learning into schools, I must say that I would like and needs. does not happen in a classroom where to see the supply of books extend beyond Groucho Marx, the star of a number of the teacher and the textbook are the only textbooks to classroom libraries, school very humorous movies at the very start of sources of information. It requires that libraries, and even within those school talking movies, once remarked: “Outside of learners must interact with a wide range libraries, a pre-school section of picture a dog, a man’s best friend is a book. Inside of learning resources when preparing their books and books for Mothers to read to of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” Far too many information-based assignments. their children. of our children are still inside the dog. As Teachers, too, need to interact with Jacqueline Wilson, an activist in the educationists we need allies to persuade a wide range of learning and teaching field of reading once remarked: “I have teachers and parents that buying a book for resources when preparing their lessons or this belief that children become readers a child to read is like teaching a child to fish learning programmes and setting problem- before they can read. They become hooked – he or she will never want – knowledge solving tasks, which will require learners on books because they were read aloud to will always be only a book away. to engage with these learning and teaching as a child.” We want our learners to believe that resources. At a recent national steering committee “To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point It is in these resources that Booksellers meeting, yet another international study of vantage which gives a view over wide trade. It is a commodity that changes came to light that shows that lack of access terrains of history, human variety, ideas, lives, and with that goes an enormous to, and use of resources such as reading shared experience and the fruits of many responsibility. As an association, SABA materials, is the main cause of poor reading inquiries.” (Manguel, 1996) and its members cannot stand aside from skills in our schools. the importance of the task. The South African Book Development JENNY RAULT-SMITH Booksellers play a vital role in education Council recently released a snapshot report Chief Director, GET Curriculum and by standing between the Department and entitled National Survey into the Reading Assessment Development for the the school. Peter Schrag, an American and Book Reading Behaviour of Adult South Department of Education

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osted at the Hotel Wanderers Protea Boekwinkel increased substantially over last two years, H during the PASA and SABA AGM’s, Academic Bookseller of the Year and obviously publishers love people that the Sefika Awards are a wonderful Well done on your award. This obviously sell their books. opportunity for the two associations to means that you have a very good working What will this award do for your bookshop get together, reward different players in relationship with the publishers. How do in the coming year? the industry for their hard work, and you maintain this? Hopefully it will motivate us to give better generally have some fun. Bookselling runs by very simple principles performance. The main award of the evening is the regarding stock and distribution. We Mr Siebritz Booksellers Choice Award, sponsored stock the publishers’ lists and use their by Nielsen Bookdata, which was won promotional items, look after the reps and Clarkes Bookshop by Shaun Johnsson for The Native keep our accounts and returns in order. Library Supplier of the Year Commissioner. Also awarded at the What will this award do for your bookshop Have you won a Sefika Award before? evening are the Bookseller and Publisher in the coming year? We have won a couple of times in the past Awards. The Publisher Awards, voted for We will look closely at the standards used for Best Independent Bookseller, but never by the booksellers were handed out by to vote for the awards and see where we are for Library Supplier so it was a wonderful SABA President Guru Redhi and Bookmark falling short and where we could improve surprise. is pleased to congratulate Random House in our bookselling. Clarkes Bookshop is more than just a (Best Trade Publisher), Juta Academic Protea Boekwinkel Store Manager bookshop then? (Best Academic Publisher) and Maskew Yes, we are obviously also a library supplier, Miller Longman (Best Education Publisher) U-nique Books we export books, we deal in second hand on taking the trophies home. Emerging Bookseller of the year books, antiquarian books, new books, and The Bookseller Awards are voted for How long have you been in business for? also specialist books such as South African by the publishers. Bookmark caught up Unique books is four years old. I started it Art, Film and Photography. People can with the winning booksellers after a night originally to keep myself occupied during even order books online from our website. of much celebration to gain insight as to retirement. We began by supplying just Would you say that this is the secret to what makes them the best at what they do. five schools and worked from the lounge your success? This is what they had to say. at home until eventually we had to move to I am sure that having many legs to stand Melkbos to a house with a bigger lounge. on helps. If one aspect of the business is We are now servicing 50 schools and have slow we can we can always count on the offices in Kilarny Gardens. other ones. Were you expecting to win the Emerging What will this award do for your bookshop Bookseller Award? in the coming year? No, after having been in the bookselling It will make us work harder. business for over 27 years, it is hard to Henrietta Dax and TJ Johannes think of myself as an emerging bookseller! What has been the secret of your success? Trade Bookseller of the year Maintaining relationships and paying on This award was a three way tie between time. We have tried over the years to meet Exclusive Books OR Tambo, Exclusive everyone in the industry and cultivate Books Hyde Park and Van Schaik good relationships with them. This is easy, Bookstore people in the publishing world are the kind Exclusive Books of people one can get along with. I suppose What is special about the OR Tambo and Guru Redhi what also counts is that our turn over Hyde Park Branches of Exclusive Books?

10 Bookmark The OR Tambo branch is unique because It will motivate all to do even better in terms it is an airport bookstore and by its nature of customer service and supplier relations. different to regular trade bookstores. After We must note however that Boekehuis and much research we found the people in Boeksentrum are since 1 September 2007 airports are not interested in a huge range not part of VSB anymore of books and are not looking for anything Dirk Uys too cerebral. They want the latest, most popular best-sellers for an easy read for Caxtons Bookshop their trip. They are interested in Books Best Educational Bookseller on or about South Africa, especially the Were you expecting to win? international visitors, who gain insight to No, it was completely out of the blue. We our country whilst visiting it and want to have had a good year or two in terms of understand it better. People in airports also revenue and worked more closely with want gift books for presents for the family publishers so the closer interaction has back home or the people they are going probably raised our profile. We are also to visit, so lovely photographic and coffee working in more provinces which has table books also sell really well. probably helped. Hyde Park on the other hand, has been the Working closely with Publishers obviously flag ship of Exclusive Books for many years means developing relationships with and is one of our three biggest, along with them. How do you look after these the Waterfront and Mandela Square, which relationships? won this award last year. All three of these We try and maintain a balanced relationship shops have huge ranges of books and host ensuring that our publishers know that lots of launches. we can be of benefit to them. We show This award is voted for by the publishers, Dirk Uys, Van Schaik Boekhandel CEO and them that in certain geographical areas and which indicates that these shops have a Corina van der Spoel, Boekehuis Manager our areas of expertise (readers, prescribed very good relationship with the publishers. books, textbooks etc.) that we can do a Does Exclusive Books not buy books at HQ World. Recognition like this is always better job for them than other booksellers, and distribute from there? welcome. or their own staff. We don’t promise the From the beginning each bookshop has Does the fact that you are sharing the world but rather emphasize our strengths managed its own orders, In fact in each shop, award with two Exclusive Books branches, and where these will be of benefit to the each bookseller has his or her own section add to or detract from the prestige of the publisher. to look after and is involved in buying the award? What will this award do for your bookshop books for that particular section. The entire I don’t think that the award has been in the coming year? shop is of course supervised by a manager, shared amongst bookstores has any effect, CB: We intend to make use of the award who oversees the whole process. This gives what’s key though is the fact that our efforts in all our marketing material and use them ownership of their store, which is have been rewarded and recognized. this to entrench our brand as a national vitally important. The buying is never done In your knowledge, has there ever been a specialised educational bookshop with a centrally. Marie Canin, Manager at Hyde three way tie in the Sefika awards? seventy year history of supplying solutions Park for example, is a terrific buyer, as is Not that I am aware of. It might be an to your book needs. Olinka Nel from OR Tambo. indication that bookstores are working even Jonathan Ferreira What will this award do for Exclusive harder to keep their customers satisfied. Books and these two particular bookshops What will this award do for Van Schaik Bookmark would like to thank all the in the coming year? Bookshops in the coming year? winners for their valuable input Our staff are always very pleased. The best praise one can receive is from ones peers. Jill van Zyl

Van Schaik Bookstore Well done on your award. Were you expecting to win? An award such as this always comes as a surprise. Our focus has never been to win awards but to have good relationships with all our stakeholders, whether it’s our staff, customers, suppliers or publishers. This award follows last year’s nomination and selection by the International Booksellers Federation, Boekehuis being one of 50 Unique Bookshops in the

Frikkie Nel, Jessica Hadley Grave, Arend Kotze and Dirk Uys FEATURES SA’s Bookselling Landscape Willem Struik shows us the facts and figures

illem Struik presented some as interviews with role players, directors of the missing data from the supplied data. W fascinating information at the provincial libraries, directors of academic Bookmark is pleased to present a brief SABA national AGM in Johannesburg libraries, booksellers and publishers. summary of this important information in August. Comparing two 2006 Book All in all the availability of data was in the form of three information-rich Industry Surveys, namely the Book very good from the trade and academic tables. These tables were created after the Publisher Industry Survey and the Book sub sectors, however there was very little extrapolations and reconstructions through Retail Industry Survey, Struik extrapolated participation by educational publishers and which Struik’s in-depth presentation these surveys to obtain an overview of booksellers in both the surveys and in went. the local book industry and the market it interviews. The first table provides an overview of serves. The extrapolation of data implies that at where the market share in the bookselling besides the two surveys mentioned least two sets of independent data are used trade, as a whole, lies in South Africa. The above, Struik also used many other to estimate the other data, these data may second and third tables gives us some references to influence his extrapolations. be absolute (sales values, purchase values) interesting international comparisons. For These included Genesis Analytics’ Factors or relative (market shares). The whole the full presentation please visit SABA’s Influencing the Cost of Books Study, as well picture is then reconstructed by estimating new website: www.sabooksellers.com

Summary of all book sales outlets sales values in millions of rand Sales outlet Type Trade Academic Professional Educational Total Marketshare Traditional booksellers 1 215 345 60 1 620 33.9% Schoolbook supply specialists 600 600 1.3% Local library suppliers 75 20 95 0.2%

Overseas library suppliers 40 40 0.1% Bookclubs / Internet 180 180 3.8% Supermarkets & department stores 210 210 4.4% Non-retail outlets 70 70 1.4% Direct publisher supplies 25 10 220 1715 1970 41.2% Total sales value 1775 415 220 2375 4785 100.0% % of market 37.1% 8.7% 4.6% 49.6% 100.0%

Some international book reading and buying comaprisons Country Finland Norway Netherlands South Africa Number of bookshops 436 624 1 427 900 Land surface area (sq km) 338 145 323 878 41 863 1 225 815 One bookshop serving on ave... sq km 775 519 29 1 362 Population 5 238 000 4 627 000 16 570 000 43 998 000 One book shop serving on ave ... people 12 200 7 381 11 449 50 555 Number of books bought per annum 32 500 000 40 000 000 16 300 000 n/a Ave number of books per inhabitant 6.2 8.6 1.0 n/a Literacy rate 99% 99% 99% 86.4% Number of public libraries - 974 1 183 n/a Number of books borrowed 73 500 000 55 000 000 138 700 000 n/a Ave number of books borrowed per capita 14.0 11.8 8.4 n/a Age composition 0 - 14 years 16.9% 19.0% 17.8% 29.1% Age composition 15 - 65 years 66.7% 6.61% 67.8% 65.5% Age composition 66 years plus 16.4% 14.8% 14.4% 5.4%

CONTINUED on pg 13 12 Bookmark FEATURES Sibongile Nzimande KZN’s new GM for Public Libraries

waZulu-Natal is very pleased to have a with a number of organizations that K newly appointed General Manager for assist with the development of libraries Public Libraries & Archives in the form of worldwide and as a consequence, numerous Sibongile Nzimande, a well degreed public areas in KZN have benefited from these servant who has an insatiable appetite for contacts. She has participated and also knowledge. contributed to conferences both nationally Mrs Nzimande embarked on a career in and internationally. Recently she has been teaching, although she soon moved across nominated to serve as Director for Africa- to practice librarianship and ascended the Sub Sahara by the International Association rungs of success through perseverance and of School Librarianship. determination, progressing through various It must be emphasized that this rare High Schools and Colleges of Education talent is contained in the most modest of from 1983 – 96. personalities. It would be no exaggeration In 1996, Mrs Nzimande was appointed as to say that Mrs Nzimande is a “people’s Provincial Director for Education Library person”. As an academic, she leads as Information and Technology Services keenly as any, with an innate sense of (ELITS). It was this designation that fairness. She is liked by all, while remaining has served to widen her horizons and made her realize her ambitions to rise to true to her principles. She is physically thus improved her efficiency in solving challenging situations. Being a Provincial and mentally resilient, has immense problems expeditiously. Her assiduousness, Directorate, with responsibilities in twelve concentration and will continue making a altruism and attention to detail has not districts, she had the mammoth task of significant contribution to the well being of gone unnoticed as she has been appointed servicing more than 5000 schools in all our people. as a board member for the South African KwaZulu-Natal. In order to execute this Mrs Nzimande is married to Dr Sipho National Library (a mother body of all LIS responsibility effectively, Mrs Nzimande Nzimande who is the Rector of the Esayidi sectors) from 2004 to 2007. Mrs Nzimande implemented and coordinated the KZN FET College in Port Shepstone. They are delivered a paper (on the Status Quo of the School Library Policy, ELITS Procurement blessed with three children, namely Zama, LIS Sector in South Africa) at the National Policy, ICT and Book Donation Policy, Nokwanda and Bakhona. Heritage Council on behalf of the National Mobile Library Policy and the Information Mrs Nzimande will be sorely missed Library of South Africa. She also presented Skills Policy. at ELITS, having taken a non-existent papers at the IASL Conference (on South During her tenure as Director of ELITS, directorate in 1996 to a fully functional and Africa motivating for the Conference) and Mrs Nzimande won a bid for ELITS to host highly coordinated department to date. We the World Library Partnership Programme the International Association of School do however, wish her well in her new role (on Legislation and Policies on School Librarianship (IASL) Conference which as General Manager for Public Libraries & Libraries). took place at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC Achives in the Arts, Culture and Tourism Mrs Nzimande has earned the respect in Durban in July 2003. This conference Department, and we are certain that she of organizations universally and through was hailed as a huge success by both local will augment the smooth running of public her enormous efforts, the organization and international delegates from the 34 library services in KwaZulu -Natal. Together with Africa and Asia Association countries that were represented. (TAAA) in Japan, donated 12 mobile Liaising with relevant Non Governmental JAY RANGIAH libraries to KwaZulu-Natal. She has Organisations as well as service providers, Manager: Hargraves Library Services established a close working relationship CONTINUED from pg 12

The book industry contribution to the national economy Country Finland Norway Netherlands South Africa Gross Domestic Product (USD m) 176 400 213 600 529 100 587 500 Publisher contribution (USD m) 645 860 1 286 590 Percentage of contribution to GDP 0.36% 0.40% 0.24% 0.10% Ave GDP per capita (USD per inhabitant / a) 33.677 46 164 31 932 13 352 Percentage of trade books imported 6% 9% 40% 70% Number of local titles in print 68 000 - 80 000 15 000 Number of new local titles published per year 4 900 - 16 300 1 600

Bookmark 13 REPORTS IFLA Congress Exceeds Expectations

Research Foundation. South African and such as social and development issues African institutions made it possible for as they relate to libraries, access to many African librarians to attend what information and freedom of expression, for many would be a once in a life time literacy, reading, publishing, and copyright opportunity to be part of the global library matters. Delegates were also able to visit and information society. For four days, the International Trade Exhibition which library and information workers were able is an integral part of the conference. to share ideas and experiences, network At night delegates had the opportunity and socialize in the balmy Durban winter. to socialize. They danced the night away The Conference opened with a on Durban’s North Beach at the eThekwini spectacular display of South African song Metro’s traditional Mayor’s Beach Party pproximately 3,500 delegates from and dance, interwoven with speeches from and savoured the culture and cuisine of A 120 countries across the globe dignitaries. The highlight of the morning South Africa at the Cultural Gala hosted attended the International Federation was keynote speaker Justice Albie Sachs’ by the Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr.Z of Library Associations and Institutions tribute to the “unknown librarian” who Pallo Jordan. (IFLA) World Library and Information helped him survive the mental agony of The general agreement among delegates, Congress in Durban from 19 – 23 August solitary confinement through providing the officials and board members of the IFLA, 2007. books he requested once he was allowed the South African host association, the It was only the second time in its history to receive reading material. Delegates Library and Information Association that this 73-year old event has been were moved to tears as he recounted his of South Africa (LIASA), sponsors and presented in Africa, the first being in Kenya experience. What the opening ceremony vendors is that the Conference exceeded in the 1980’s. The conference attracted the lacked in spectacle and extravaganza it all expectations. The final report and largest delegation of African library and made up with “soul”. The ceremony set the conference proceedings will be available information workers ever to attend an tone for the whole conference. on the IFLA website www.ifla.org IFLA conference. This was largely due to The theme of the conference was the many grants from generous sponsors “Libraries for the Future: Progress, NOHRA MOERAT especially the Department of Arts and Development and Partnerships” and National Committee, IFLA/World Library Culture, South Africa and the National during the day delegates discussed topics and Information Congress, Durban Awards put Libraries in the Spotlight

ene Schoombee, school librarian Being involved in this for a year now, made a public librarian at the Polokwane R of Rustenberg ������������������Primary School in her realize that this is a sector that has Municipal Library, currently the senior the North West won the LIASA/Sabinet�������������� tremendous potential. Children need to be librarian in charge of the children’s Librarian of the Year for 2007 at a Gala educated in the correct use of information, section of the five Polokwane Libraries event on 17 August. and this can only be done through proper and responsible for outreach programmes She receives an award of R25 000 to be information literacy classes. She is and library promotion. She is particularly used for any educational purpose of her currently developing activities that can be interested in researching how rural libraries choice. The Librarian of the Year is seen presented by teacher librarians that will can meet the needs of all sectors of rural to be a role model to the rest of the library ensure that children will enjoy the classes communities. and information community and a person while learning. Third place went to Alida Schlebusch, whose contributions make a lasting impact Children and Youth Library Services is representing the Gauteng-North branch, on the sector. René’s big passion. She became popular who receives an award of R2 000. Alida René started her library career at the amongst the community for her reading Schlebusch has been Deputy Manager Rustenburg Public Library, directly after awareness programmes, especially in the at Tshwane Community Library and passing matric in 1990 and never looked rural areas of Rustenburg and environs. Information Services since 2002. Alida back. She began studying and completed Rene has been actively involved in is set on convincing the local authority her Masters Degree (UNISA) in 2006. The LIASA, serving first as the Public Relations that libraries are an essential service, title of her dissertation was: “Interventions Officer for North-West Branch, then as like housing and basic services. She in Community Library Services for HIV/ National Public Relations Officer. She also is determined to help the authority AIDS Awareness in the Bojanala Region”. was editor of LIASA-in-Touch, the official understand that libraries, as the agents of She received a SALI Trust Research Grant magazine of the Association. knowledge, play a major role in the socio- to assist with the costs of her studies. Second place went to Magriet Lotz who economic well being of the communities. René’s main aim now is to enhance was nominated by the Limpopo Branch. School Librarianship in South Africa. She receives an award of R3 000. Magriet, Liasa & Sabinet Online

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REPORTS Annual Focus on SABA What does the South African Booksellers Association do for you?

ABA represents a united front for eloquent speakers. This is an opportunity of research papers and the gathering of S booksellers in this difficult time of for education for all, keeping members at news, followed by effective dissemination of change. Through strategic liaison with the cutting edge of developments in our this information via the industry magazine the different sectors of the industry and ever changing industry. Bookmark, and through the newly launched provinces, SABA strives to regulate the SABA works closely with government website www.sabooksellers.com book-trade, reminding publishers to act as departments, educational authorities, Bookmark, the official magazine of SABA, wholesalers and booksellers as retailers. and the State tender boards concerning is distributed free of charge to all members The annual SABA AGM has historically matters that affect the trade, such as import as well as to all influential people in the been co-located with the Publishers regulations, customs and procedures. book-trade from publishers to government Association of South Africa (PASA) AGM. More than 50% of SABA members are departments. This magazine is a mouthpiece In 2008, the two associations plan on previously disadvantaged and SABA is for SABA members as much as it is a source taking this a step further, by having joint well positioned to lobby government on of information. Send a letter to the editor at meetings, providing the opportunity for all issues pertinent to the book-trade. The [email protected] to get your booksellers and publishers from all areas to SABA membership list is in fact circulated views published. get together for the exchange of ideas and to State departments, libraries, schools All SABA members are now listed on the formulation of policies acceptable to all and other institutions, recommending the SABA website with fully searchable for the good of the trade. that purchases should be made from a details. An extended list of membership The AGM is open to all members of SABA recognized bookseller with contact details will also be printed in and is a conference full of information, SABA provides access to information for each edition of Bookmark from this edition energetic discussions, pertinent topics and all its members, through the commissioning onwards.

Committee Report-backs: What’s happening in your sector?

The Academic Trade The Library Trade The General Trade The biggest issues facing the Academic Chairman Maureen Hargraves reported Chairman Peter Adams reported that the Trade are those to do with copyright. that the Gauteng Provincial Library has Book Retail Survey Industry Report, a According to Chairman Dirk Uys, a joint deteriorated seriously due to lack of venture which SABA had supported, had meeting held between the academic funds and support from the provincial recently been released and it showed steady publishers and booksellers had entertained administration. SABA will draw the growth in the General Trade over a period lengthy discussions regarding copyright attention of National Government to the of some years. There was special growth problems. Publishers are concerned about problem. in local publications sold, reflecting the the spreading of copyright infringements In other provinces, the Tshwane Metro investments by some major publishers in and they intend to take more concerted Library has reverted to a more equitable local programs. action to enforce their rights. method of purchasing, KwaZulu-Natal The Get Caught Reading Campaign is In discussion Vic Lopich suggested that has a new Director of Public Libraries being driven by the publishers who have booksellers should report infringements. and Archives and Etekhweni has a new given substantial funding. Those doing so said that they believed operating system. SABA is represented on the committee publishers had to defend their rights Members discussed the issues arising by Penny Hochfeld, who suggested that a to ensure that booksellers who support from poor reporting by publishers and program of posters that promoted reading, them are not prejudiced by the ability of weak administration in some areas. in areas where there are no books, needed other booksellers with illegal editions to Reggie Moses noted that the present support of a program helping to get books under-sell them. SABA will keep members system prevents black people from earning to the deprived people. informed of copyright problems discretely. orders, and asked if SABA should not look Booksellers need to support the program Other issues with which this committee at the buying systems. Shirelle Hendriks for it to be successful. is dealing, are the challenges the trade commented that the current systems had SABA continues to be concerned about faces through poor publishers’ service evolved over a period of time and were some publishers’ service and has designed and problems obtaining book lists from proven to work. Direct supply by publishers a survey to measure performance, which UNISA. continues to be a problem. booksellers will be asked to support. Chairman Dirk Uys Chairman Maureen Hargraves Chairman Peter Adams

16 Bookmark Meet the SABA Team: The new Executive Committee

President and Chairman, Central Region Chairman, Libraries Guru Redhi has been in the bookselling Maureen Hargraves had an early start in industry since 1968, when he took over the the book trade, joining Pilgrims Booksellers in family business in Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal and 1963. In 1976, together with Philip Joseph (then changed its core focus to bookselling. Guru of Exclusive Books Hilbrow), she opened the has been an active member in the business first Cape Town Branch of Exclusive Books. In community and has been involved the Tongaat 1996, Hargraves Library Service was launched and Durban Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He was elected as a specialist library supplier, and Maureen was joined by her son Chairman of the then Associated Booksellers of South Africa Richard a year later: He opened a Hargraves branch in KwaZulu- (ABSA) KwaZulu-Natal in 1985 and has been on the executive Natal. Hargraves later acquired Books Only in Gauteng. Maureen committee of SABA since its inception in 1998. Guru is now three was president of ABSA (Associated Booksellers of South Africa) years into his second term as SABA’s President. for nine years and is an honorary life member of SABA. She has served as a member of the SABA Executive in various capacities Vice President and Chairman, Southern Region since its launch. Hentie Gericke did some time at Trust Bank and Total Oil Company, amongst some teaching Chairman, Eastern Region stints, before finding his niche in the book Clifford Vazi is a teacher by profession. After industry with Naspers 19 years ago. Until very working as teacher for a number of years, he recently, Hentie was the regional manager for became an inspector and then a director of the Southern Provinces at Afribooks. In August education in the former Ciskei. In 1995 Clifford this year, however, Hentie started his own business called 24 / 7 started Khulani Bookshops, which is a business Boeke / Books. Hentie has been on the National Executive since that has grown to be one of the most respected 1998. Hentie acted as President in between Guru’s first and second black owned bookshops in East London. Clifford joined SABA in term, and has now been Vice President for 3 years 2005 in a move to begin interacting more seriously with the major role players in the industry. This is his first year as a member Secretary and Chairman, General Trade of the executive, and he planson using the position to make a Peter Adams is a third generation bookseller contribution to society. and joined the family business as soon as he had finished his first degree at the University Chairman, Northern Region of Natal. While working at Adams Bookshop in Caroline Nixon has been with Edcon since West Street Durban, Peter continued to study, 1986, although she did have a bit of a break adding a B. Comm. to his BA and also studying from 1990 – 94. Caroline has extensive buying botany and history when he had the time. With Peter, the family and planning portfolio experience, mostly on business grew from a single shop entity to a group of seven the fashion side of the business. When Edcon specialist bookshops in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Cape Town. procured CNA in 2002, she moved across as Peter joined the executive in 1998 as secretary. the Divisional Buying Manager of the Stationery, Toys, Gifting and Photographic Division. Then two and a half years ago was moved Honorary Treasurer and Chairman, Academic across into the Book and Newsstand Division. Caroline sees herself Dirk Uys entered the bookselling trade in as a vivacious, friendly, and honest extrovert. “I am always on the 2003 when he joined the Van Schaik Bookstore lookout for new challenges. The Reading division has definitely chain. Prior to this, Dirk spent many years offered me excitement and some interesting challenges over the with Media24 in their newspaper division as past two years,” she says. Marketing Manager at the Beeld in Gauteng. He holds a B. Mil degree from the US as well as SABA National Manager an MBA obtained at the North West University. Dirk joined the Frikkie Nel began his career in the book- executive in 2005 and has been honorary treasurer since then. trade when he joined Nasionale Boekhandel in Port Elizabeth in 1965. He managed branches Chairman, Education in Umtata, Durban and Johannesburg, before Joseph Klassen entered the bookselling becoming National Marketing Manager of & Stationery trade in 1973 with Premfare/ Van Schaik Bookstore, and later Manager of Paperbacks and Octo Booksellers in Athlone. Nasionale Boekhandel Wholesale (now On the Dot). He retired in He is has been co-owner of Rynew Educational 2004. Frikkie joined SABA in 2004 as National Manager although Enterprises since 2000. Joseph was a member of he had been on the National Executive since its inception in 1998 SABA from 1978 till 1982 and rejoined again in – and before that on the Associated Booksellers of South Africa 2003. He has been on the executive since 2005. (ABSA) Central Council from 1983. Bookmark 17 REPORTS WCED sets an Example

At the SABA AGM in August this year, The Educational principles take priority he system provides space for book Western Cape region was mentioned many over purely commercial imperative. T suppliers from whom schools order times as an example of how a good working Transparency and accountability in matters their books ultilising the funds allocated relationship with the different partners concerned with purchase and provision of to schools. Even when the WCED pays for in the value chain can facilitate effective educational materials should be upheld special projects to enhance the supply of delivery of books, particularly to schools. although it is recognized that there will books to schools, the process goes via the Below, Jenny Rault-Smith, who worked in be certain situations where confidentiality bookseller. the Western Cape Education Department will need to be respected. It is in this spirit that WCED is able (WCED) for many years before moving on Businesses and educational authorities to treat booksellers as partners in the to the National Department of Education, should uphold the principles of process of education in the Western Cape. outlines how the synergies work, and Reconstruction and Development. When WCED first decided to go into the why they are successful ways of doing COMSEM encourages a competitive 100 book project and get 100 books of business. and free environment which will lead varying levels in various combinations of to a constant improvement in quality, the 3 regional languages into schools in he WCED works with the material competitive lowering of prices, and as a matter of months, people said that it T supply chain very effectively through broad a range of product as possible. To could not be done. My first step outside good working relationships with SABA and this end, and to ensure a dynamic and of the internal processes was to put the the booksellers in the region. Unlike the rest internationally acknowledged educational project on the table at COMSEM, and of the country, the Western Cape does not system, the existence of a range of I recall the deathly silence that met the follow a centralized purchase system. The independent suppliers, producing and indication of requirements and deadlines! WCED has a Committee which deals with supplying creative, accessible and widely But it became a project that caught the the education material supply chain, and tested material is an imperative. imagination because it carried the message through good working relationships with To support the Open Book policy, criteria that through our chosen professions of SABA and the booksellers in the region, the for selection of learning support material educators, publishers or booksellers, each system is very effective. at institutional level should be discussed, one of us could be part of a process of The Department, publishers and reviewed and revised by the stakeholders change in the country. booksellers are represented on the as the need arises. committee in order to regulate relationships. Guidelines and in-service training in JENNY RAULT-SMITH This Committee of Stakeholders in educationally sound selection procedures at Chief Director, GET Curriculum and Educational Material, otherwise known as local school level are essential to ensure an Assessment Development for the COMSEM ensures equity, given the open effective “open” system of learning support Department of Education materials selection and buying systems. material selection and provisioning. The COMSEM committee ensures communication and collaboration between tFF the Department and publishers and booksellers. Apart from communication, H NT AC oR which is essential in a province where the t eFo F t y open book system is in operation, and teachers have to make their own decisions about the selection of books, it is important for suppliers to know the intentions of the Department and the mechanisms developed to manage the process. Possibly more Come to the text-based design importantly, it is critical that publishers specialists for all your advertising, marketing and PR needs. and booksellers know exactly what the timeframes are for departmental processes so that they can shepherd their principals and schools in the right direction. Move with the A particularly significant role of times. Launch 2008 with COMSEM was the need to collaboratively a blog created Trade publications. Project management. Design and layout develop, and adhere to a code of conduct according to your Web design. Hosting. PR. Marketing. Strategy which would ensure that the supply chain specifications. T: 021 6868286 was driven by educational considerations R3150.00 only C: 083 4692966 E: [email protected] and not just profit. The Code of Conduct W: www.thefontfactory.co.za is the foundation for the partnership and Text-based design fresh from the forge contains a statement of beliefs:

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hillip Pullman’s award winning His fact remains that it was recently selected by award winning playwright Tom Stoppard PDark Materials series is set to reach judges of the Carnegie Medal as one of the and writer / director Chris Weitz, who also new heights with the upcoming release of ten most important children’s novels of the directed the film. Lyra is played by Dakota The Golden Compass, a movie based on past 70 years. It has been dubbed by many Blue Richards, in her feature film debut, the first book in the series, known in South as the “next Lord of the Rings” and called with Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Eva Africa as Northern Lights. a “brilliant” masterpiece by some of the Green, Ian McShane and a couple of other According to Wikipedia, “the superficial world’s most renowned literary critics. The recognizable names rounding out the rest resemblance of protagonist Lyra Belacqua’s trilogy was the first children’s series ever of the cast. althiometer to a large compass, caused the to be honored with England’s prestigious His Dark Materials has a passionate North American publishers of Northern Whitbread Book of the Year Award worldwide fan base already. With more Lights to retitle the book The Golden The movie, produced by New Line than 14 million books sold across the globe Compass. In fact, The Golden Compass Cinema with a budget of $150 million is that have been translated into 37 different was an early proposal for the name of the set to hit the screens on 7 December 2007 languages, the field is set for His Dark trilogy (instead of His Dark Materials), in time for the holiday season, and judging Materials mania. taken from Milton’s Paradise Lost.” from the trailer, it won’t disappoint. Scholastic Media and New Line Cinema Regardless of the name of the book, the The screenplay was adapted by academy are now finalizing its licensing program. Sega is tapped as interactive partner, master toy licensee Corgi International is creating an extensive line of toys and collectibles, and there is a list of more than 40 licensing partners worldwide. “The film provides so much rich material and we know that fans are anxiously awaiting products based on this incredibly popular story,” said Leslye Schaefer, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Consumer Products for Scholastic Media. Scholastic has recently signed on Sababa Toys and MEGA Brands in the board game & puzzle category. Each company will develop variations on board game themes that take players through the fantasy adventure created in The Golden Compass mythology. Additional categories include apparel, home décor, stationary, gift & novelty and publishing. Scholastic is publishing the movie tie-in books throughout the world in the English language. The publishing covers a range of titles and formats, including The Official Illustrated Movie Companion, Visual Explorer – The Definitive Guide to Lyra’s World, The World of The Golden Compass, The Story of the Movie, Movie Storybook, Shuffle-Puzzle Book, Poster Book and The Official Movie Quiz Book. Bookmark highly recommends a look at the website www.goldencompassmovie. com , which has already garnered millions of page views. Here you can catch a look at the trailor and you can even find your deamon.

JESSICA HADLEY GRAVE With reference to Scholastic Press Releases and Wikipedia Bookmark 21 26 Letters of the Alphabet

of the factors that resulted in a high drop out rate in first year university students. This indicated that without the ability to use words and more importantly choose words, real knowledge is not transferred and people do not have the ability to argue constructively for a point of view or explain what they understand. You can imagine that should this happen in a more heated debate, the urge to punch instead of explain would be far higher,” Brown explains. Written answers have subsequently been re-introduced into the exam process, and Brown is of the opinion that someone with a book in their hand may not have a gun in it instead. “We are sure that we won’t be able to solve all of the crime and violence in South Africa but if we do something to re-establish here seem to be a number of different one of the pillars in our society that has the posters with the rationales from the T literacy projects on the go in South fallen down, then perhaps we can solve creators printed in cost effective and Africa, all aimed at developing a book a significant part of a the problem. And consumer friendly book format so that the reading culture, which would obviously be that’s worth doing,” she continues. message of the exhibition and intelligent of great benefit to our society as a whole. The 26 Letters exhibition, launched at works it has led to can be taken into peoples Most importantly for booksellers, of the Design Indaba in Cape Town this year, houses, where hopefully it will stimulate course, a book reading nation means more has just finished a very successful run at the interest in the alphabet again and remind books bought and sold and so it is good Thompson Gallery in Johannesburg. people that they have a powerful tool in business to support these campaigns. One Brown, has great visions for the future the ABC - regardless of what language they campaign which caught Bookmarks eye of the project and hopes to move the entire might speak. recently is called the 26 Letters Project, exhibition round the country, taking it It is impossible to convey the importance a literacy against violence initiative, to different galleries, libraries and even of these posters through description alone. implemented and supported by the design schools. The theory is that the exhibition The pairing of writers with designers and business writing community of South pays for itself by selling copies of the has created works full of literary wit and Africa. different posters printed on canvass. With political and social comment, which are Based on the UK 26 Letters concept, but 30 sales at the Thompson Gallery alone, it reinforced time and again by inventive and implemented in a South African context. seems as if the concept should succeed. intelligent design. They are, quite simply, Business writers teamed up with designers The next stage of the project is to get brilliant. all over the country to explore the DNA of Another campaign that we will watch language, with Crime and Violence as the with interest, readers will know as the issue on the table. Get Caught Reading Campaign, initiated “Two factors steered our project into by South African Publishers, which was this direction,” says curator Des Brown. originally going to be a poster campaign. “The first was the information and research The campaign has been renamed ‘Whats from a book entitled ‘A is for Ox’ written Your Story?’ and will now be multimedia by Barry Sanders which tracks the collapse driven. Working in collaboration with of literacy and the rise of violence in an libraries, schools and other stakeholders, electronic age.” the campaign will emphasise the message “The second factor came from the that reading makes for successful people. contents of an ‘After Eight Debate’ with It will highlight the entertainment value John Perlman on SAfm where the comment of books as well as the aspirational value was made by one of John’s guests that of reading and will not be a once-off event written answers had been dropped in Matric but rather an annual drive that encourages exams because apparently it would penalise South Africans to participate in literacy people who could not write fast enough. awareness. Unfortunately, it appeared that this was one JESSICA HADLEY GRAVE Editor Bookmark Magazine 22 Bookmark

REGULARS Industry Update STE Publishers joins Book Pro’s list Government’s R6bn literacy plan Book Promotions / Horizon Books announced in August A long awaited plan to break the back of adult illiteracy in that STE Publishers were joining their list of local publishers. South Africa has been approved by cabinet, and is expected to Established in 1996, STE Publishers have been publishing be announced by Education Minister Naledi Pandor shortly. relevant quality books since 2000 and focus mainly on The national mass literacy campaign, first spoken about in

cultural and political history, biographies, autobiographies, 2006, will cost R6.1bn and is expected to enable 4.7 million photographic and educational titles. adults to achieve basic literacy and numeracy by 2012. This is Book Promotions’ usual terms and conditions will apply. For in accordance with South Africa’s Pledge to halve adult literacy more information, please contact your local representative or by 2014.

[email protected] The campaign will be aligned with other government Bookpro programmes, such as the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (Asgi-SA), the Expanded A readers book prize Public Works Programme (EPWP) and the National Skills The Citizen in association with 30° South Publishers is Development Plan. currently running a a book prize where the public get to vote According to Themba Maseko, the cabinet spokesperson, for the winner. 80 000 tutors are to be engaged to teach in the project and The competition, which began in July, will run for a total of an interministerial committee, chaired by the Minister of 10 weeks, with a 500 word synopsis of a short listed manuscript Education will oversee the implementation of the plan. printed each Thursday in The Citizen’s leisure section. The Reuters reading public can then vote for it over the course of one week

before the focus is turned to the next author. This has given the Shapiro awarded for courage same amount of voting time and exposure for each author and South Africa’s very own Jonathan Shapiro won the 2007 encouraged the public to actively participate in the competition Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award from the Cartoonists on a week-by-week basis. The voting is done on a grading Rights Network International (CRNI) announced on 6 July The winner receives R10,000 in cash courtesy of The Citizen this year. and; their manuscript will be published by 30° South Publishers Two of Shapiro’s three “Zuma” cartoons are cited in the $2 in time for Christmas 2007. The book will also be submitted for million defamation suit, which ANC Deputy President Jacob the 2008 Exclusive Books Homebru promotion. Zuma has brought against the cartoonist, editors and South 30° South African publishers. Zuma’s political pedigree includes resistance organizer, McPherson retires from Praesidium 10-year Robben Island prisoner, exile, ANC negotiator, party Norman Mc Pherson has officially retired from Praesidium official and former deputy president of South Africa. In recent books, having sold his equity in the company to Khayise years, Zuma has drawn criticism from the press due to his in- Capital (Pty) Ltd owned by Nkuli and Sandile Swana in March fighting for ANC leadership and the company he keeps. There this year. are allegations of tax evasion, corruption and rape. The Swana brothers will increase their shareholding form The rape case did go to trial and was deemed consensual sex

60% to 100% over the next three years as Andrew Payne, by the court May 8. However, Zuma’s own testimony outraged a 40% shareholder in the business and current director of HIV/AIDS educators. This former chair of the National AIDS operations, hands over the reigns. Council testified that he did not use a condom. He said he This premier BEE company, specializes in the supply of minimized the risk of infection from the 32-year-old HIV academic books to university, provincial, metro and corporate positive woman by taking a shower. Shapiro took Zuma to

libraries. task. Nkuli is the executive chairman of the company responsible Thus the lawsuit. Refusing to be intimidated, Shapiro for the finance function. He is well received amongst the major countered the law suit with new cartoons about the law suit. universities having been the CFO of UNISA and a director of They were published by three newspaper groups. PURCO. Shapiro—pen name Zapiro—has been a political cartoonist Sandile is a serial entrepreneur and is the CEO of the for over two decades. He has the distinction of being detained company bringing general management skills to the mix. The without trial for his anti-apartheid activities in the 1980s and company is endowed with staff members who have an average threatened by representatives of the current government. He of 10 years service in its employ, and are supported by a joins an eclectic group of winners of the Courage in Editorial formidable company infrastructure. Cartooning Award. Praesidium Books % CRNI

24 Bookmark South African medical journalist awarded ITEC resources centre gets a boost The UK edition of SuburbanShaman: A Journey The Exclusive Books Reading Trust has contributed close through Medicine by Cecil Helman, originally published by to R300 000.00 worth of book shelves and new book stock Double Storey Books, has won the 2007 UK Medical Journalists’ (about 3000 new books) towards the Institute of Training and Association Open Book Award in the General Readership/ Education for Capacity-building (ITEC) Resource Centre in General Interest section. East London in September. This prestigious literary award celebrates the very best of Says Penny Hochfeld, Corporate Social Responsibility writing in the UK healthcare arena and the critical role that Manager: “The aim of the Exclusive Books Reading Trust is to writers play in educating and informing audiences. support literacy, reading and library projects in South Africa.

Suburban Shaman , which was selected by BBC Radio as Book The ITEC library has been providing valuable services to of the Week and serialised last year, provides a rare and often under-resourced East London and Mdantsane schools and funny insight into the life and encounters of a modest family communities for twenty years, and it had just become too small doctor. to accommodate the growing number of library members. Like shamans, sangomas and other traditional doctors, and ITEC is a registered non-governmental, non-profit unlike modern ‘techno-doctors’, Cecil views illness in a wider organisation that assists disadvantaged schools and personal, social and cosmic context, considering elements communities by providing holistic educational programmes, beyond the purely physical in the treatment of his patients. resources, training and skills development. Suburban Shaman was first published by Double Storey Books Exclusive Books in South Africa in 2004. Juta New Readers Digest reviewer Former Fairlady editor Ann Donald was appointed Reader’s New look for study guides Digest South Africa’s Book of the Month columnist this August. The Study & Master Study Guides have been revised in Her first column appeared in the September 2007 edition. line with all the requirements of the FET Phase curriculum. Donald, the owner of Kalk Bay Books will review works from They are designed to help learners understand their learning a selection of South African and international authors for the area and to pass their exams with flying colours! pocket-sized publication, which prides itself on seeking to The Study Guides provide detailed explanations, worked expand the mind and enrich the spirit and the body. examples, supplementary exercises, activities to reinforce Reader’s Digest is published by Media 24, which took over learning in the classroom and practice in answering different the licence to publish the magazine from Heritage Publishing types of questions that learners are required to master from in November 2005. Grade 10 onwards. Answers to all of the exercises are provided Media 24 at the back of the book so that learners can check their progress and assess their understanding of concepts. The Study Guides Exclusive awards children’s writers also include Department of Education Exemplar Papers written National bookseller Exclusive Books awarded the inaugural by pilot schools in 2006. “Exclusive Books - IBBY SA Awards”, on Tuesday 11 September CUP 2007, in recognition of the best children’s book writers and illustrators in South Africa. IBBY is the International Board Van Schaik lends a helping hand on Books for Young People (IBBY), a non-profit organization Van Schaik Bookstores donated stationary packs to which represents an international network of people who

Stellenbosch students after a fire destroyed the top floor of the are committed to bringing books and children together. The Eendrag residence on 9 August 2007. following South African children’s books were noted and are The National Academic Bookseller also replaced second on display in Exclusive Books Stores: Fynbos Feetjies by Antjie semester prescribed textbooks that had been lost through the Krog, Zanzibar Road by Niki Daly, Tall Enough - Utshepo fire at their own cost, and to top it all off added eight computers Mde by Mhlobo Jadezweni and Hannah Morris, Ouma to the package. Ruby’s Secret by Chris van Wyk and Cool Nguni by Maryanne Dirk Uys, CEO of Van Schaik Bookstore said at the handover Bester. ceremony in Stellenbosch that as a full subsidiary of Via Afrika Exclusive Books

and Media24 the company would like to support students in this crisis. New trade imprint for Shuter & Shooter “Our company realises the value of successful studies to The trade imprint of Shuter & Shooter Publishers (Pty) Ltd both the students and our economy and would like to assist is a bold, new adventure for one of South Africa’s oldest during this time. Van Schaik Bookstore has a long standing and most respected publishing houses. Known simply as relationship with the Stellenbosch University and would like SHUTER, this imprint acknowledges the power of the book to honour this,” Uys said. to open minds and transform lives. SHUTER will publish a Van Schaik Bookstore is the preferred and leading supplier unique range of quality fiction and non-fiction for adults and of South African academic material with 46 branches children that reflects the diversity and universality of human nationally. experience in Africa and beyond. Van Schaik Shuter & Shooter

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This 26 ber this year. in participate as a finalist. The regional winner of the award will then and he is passionate about turning it into an excellent profit making business. quires are rate. Education also Editions, distributes ed to the Department of Education. ed award Entrepreneur of the month within South focus South all illustration, Africa’s specialist in isiXhosa at Edinburgh a to writers couple Council now of forward developed the a the College for Centre achievements New New head for the Centre for the Book hole REGULARS Africa News Botswana’s writers remembered Kenya goes digital An anthology of Botswana’s writers and poets was launched The East African Educational Publishers has digitalized two at a literary affair in Gabarone in August. The anthology is Kenyan works for distribution over the internet. The books, called Mahube Volume 1 namely Meja Mwangi’s Carcass for Hounds and Mwangi Speaking at the event, the Charge d’ Affaires at the US Ruheni’s The Future Leaders and The Minister’s Daughter, embassy (Gaborone), Philip Drouin said that the launch of the are hugely popular works. Mr Muriuki Njeru, Vice Chairman of

Mahube journal is a milestone in empowering local writers with the Kenya Publishers Association and also Managing Director an avenue to showcase their considerable and commendable of EAEP, says the government should encourage publishing talents. houses to go into digital publishing. In an African context Drouin added that much of African culture and history electronic publishing could help transcend geographical, cost

have been lost through unrecorded poems and stories and language barriers, although it also is not without its own told by the ancestors. The importance of recording and problems and still has a long way to go. sustaining publications of literary works of art could never be Allafrica.com overemphasized, Drouin said. “This, however, cannot be achieved if the nation does not revisit its culture of reading. It is great that your publications Gambia hosts literary festival A three-day Pan-African Literature Festival, which brought find their way to bookshops, but if nobody picks them to read together authors, writers, poets, literature-lovers and academia them, then a writer’s goal of educating and entertaining the from all over the world was held in Bakau, Gambia in August public will not be achieved,” advised the diplomat. this year. Allafrica.com

The festival was held to create a platform for participants to discuss issues affecting the growth, promotion and preservation Education push in Burkina Faso of the spirit of reading and writing in Africa. Gambia played Odile Bonkoungou, minister of basic education and literacy host to a number of international authors, all of whom found in Burkina Faso announced in August that the government will the forum to be a positive step in the right direction. distribute millions of free books to primary school students, Allafrica.com as well as launch a pilot project to give no-fee schooling to 45 departments around the country this academic year. Fourth edition of Kwani?

The programme will cost the government 1.5 billion CFA The Fourth Edition of Kwani? the Kenyan literary journal, francs (US$3.1 million) in 2007, and 1.2 billion CFA francs which gives space to anonymous writers and poets, was (US$2.4 million) every subsequent year. released at the end of August 2007 in Nairobi. The project is in line with a push from the World Bank and The journal boasts more that 50 pieces ranging from poetry, the UN to encourage free education in developing countries to illustrated strips, well-researched news pieces and creative

worldwide. short stories. It sports graffiti on a black cover and is not as Allafrica.com littered with grammatical errors as the previous edition. Either way, it is definitely a sample of the literary work of Kenyan Book Fair celebrates a decade Kenya and reports are that readers will find as invigorating The Nairobi International Book Fair recently celebrated ‘A and charming as the first edition. decade of publishing excellence’ with publishers taking stock Allafrica.com of their achievements at a very successful event. In the last four years, revenues for book publishers in Kenya have been boost- Kenya goes online ed by free primary education and the change in curriculum im- A website is soon to be launched in Kenya where locally pub- plemented from 2003 to 2006. But on the marketing front, lished books will be available for purchase on line. the industry is accused of being stuck in a rut by concentrat - The service, the first of its kind in Kenya is expected to save ing on school texts and channelling little resources to sell other buyers the time consumed visiting bookshops, as well is mak- genres such as fiction and poetry. Authors fault publishers for ing it easier for people to access books from anywhere in the not promoting creative works, instead concentrating on school country. texts. Publishers say that Kenyans don’t read and they are just It will originally have 1,800 titles with a promise to deliver putting their efforts where the market is. any orders placed in Nairobi within 24 hours. Allafrica.com Allafrica.com

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Public hungry for more books Frankfurt Book Fair 2007 More than half of people who read regularly believe that Frankfurt Book Fair organisers expected around 180,000 more books will be read in 2025 than today, whether in print trade visitors from more than 100 countries during the five or digital formats. And 66% of readers say use of the internet is days of this year’s Fair from 10 to 14 October. helping them deepen their passion for books. More than ever, the professional programme was set to focus These are two of the findings of a HarperCollins survey of on the different aspects of digitisation in the book and media 1,000 readers. Catherine Hunt and Jenny Lindsay of HC’s industry, from e-books, e-marketing and open access to the consumer insight unit said that readers are “incredibly active online platforms Google and Amazon, as well as the copyright online”, but 27% of them enjoyed printed books as a break from debate and Web 2.0. technology. Other reasons for reading more include greater The programme at the International Booksellers & Trade

availability of books and cheaper prices. Visitors Centre in Hall 4.0 offered international book market Barry Clark of the Future Foundation was also upbeat about analyses, seminars on rights and licence business and the public’s enduring hunger for books. He said that the overall post-entry training options for booksellers and publishing expansion of education and burgeoning personal wealth have people from all over the world. Attention was focused on the created a desire for “pro-am” leisure activities, whereby people international audiobook market. turn to books to become “experts” on subjects. He cited above- Exhibitors from more than 100 countries take part at the

average sales of books on the arts, ideas and culture over the Frankfurt Book Fair. Each year, some of these markets are past five years. “Books have greater cultural capital than ever,” introduced in the International Booksellers & Trade Visitors he said. Centre. Thebookseller.com Alongside publishing professionals, booksellers make up the biggest trade visitor group at the Frankfurt Book Fair, but publishers, librarians, illustrators, translators, literary agents, Potter has limited effect production and education specialists and even film-makers Of all the magical powers wielded by Harry Potter, perhaps also have their own work centres, exhibition sections and none has cast a stronger spell than his supposed ability to professional events. transform the reading habits of young people. In what has The Frankfurt Book Fair is the biggest book fair in the world become near mythology about the wildly popular series by J. – with more than 7,000 exhibitors from over 100 countries. K. Rowling, many parents, teachers, librarians and booksellers It also organises the participation of German publishers at have credited it with inspiring a generation of kids to read for more than 25 international book fairs and is co-founder of the pleasure in a world dominated by instant messaging and music Cape Town Book Fair in South Africa. downloads.

It maintains the most visited website worldwide for the And so it has, for many children. But in keeping with the publishing industry at www.book-fair.com. intricately plotted novels themselves, the truth about Harry Frankfurt Book Fair Potter and reading is not quite so straightforward a success story. Indeed, as the series draws to a much-lamented close, federal statistics show that the percentage of youngsters who Publishers in push to sell direct online read for fun continues to drop significantly as children get Booksellers fear publishers’ moves to sell direct to consumers older, at almost exactly the same rate as before Harry Potter online will further erode their own sales, as the UK’s two largest came along. players, Random House and Hachette, make forays into direct New York Times selling. Random has just launched a new direct-to-consumer site, www.rbooks.co.uk, which offers discounts of up to 20% and HarperCollins US puts books on mobiles signed copies. HarperCollins is poised to start selling directly HarperCollins is launching a mobile browse inside feature

by Christmas, while Penguin has just relaunched its site for the new iPhone, with digital book content from 14 titles and will discount titles by up to 25%. All are aiming to build available. Users can view the first ten pages of the first two relationships with readers and store information about their chapters of the available titles and can click to buy or pre-order

tastes. the books. Meanwhile, Hachette is rolling out new-look sites across its “Reaching consumers on mobile devices and the Internet publishing divisions from this month, which will all sell direct is increasingly important for publishers,” said Brian Murray, to consumers. Hachette is aiming to offer next-day delivery as president of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide. well as “added value” products such as signed editions. Thebookseller.com Thebooksellers.com

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Letters to the Editor Obituaries The Editor, Bookmark Nicholas Combrinck I was terribly disappointed last year to find that I had failed Nicholas Combrinck passed away on the night of the 20 Septem- in tenders I had made to Section 21 Schools to supply some ber 2007 at his home in Muizenberg. Nicholas was a very tal- considerable orders in the KZN midlands. ented publisher and a very affable human being. His last place My prices were good and there was little margin of profit at of work was New Africa Books where he headed the Spearhead the discounts offered. I was confused as to why I had lost the imprint which he had co-founded in the late 1990s. tenders until I discovered that the winner of the tenders had Before working for New Africa Books, Nicholas had worked made arrangements with the publishers for direct delivery of for a number of trade publishing houses. At the time of his the books to the schools, so reducing their cost and making death, he was doing freelance publishing and editing. We at them able to undercut our offer. New Africa Books and colleagues that we have talked to in the SABA-Kzn approached Shuter & Shooter, one of the industry are shocked and saddened by the loss of a talented col- publishers supplying the schools, asking whether it was their league. policy to do deliveries for booksellers. Despite the fact that they felt that they could be disadvantaged Paul Mashego if other publishers continued with this practice, they decided A valued member of the Penguin sales team, Paul Mashego to stop direct deliveries. If publishers were to take this on it passed away on Saturday 4 August 2007. Paul was responsible would increase their costs and lead them into our markets. I for looking after Penguins’ educational customers and for would therefore plead and advise them that they should not do promoting Penguin titles in the education sector. He was such deliveries in future. admired and respected by everyone in his field and will be SABA has not, as far as I know, yet written to other publishers greatly missed by his colleagues. about this problem. I believe Shuters decision was the right Paul contracted meningitis and although admitted to hospital quickly, the doctors were not able to save him. He leaves his one and I respect them greatly for this. I would like to call on all publishers to make deliveries on behalf of booksellers wife Lorraine and four children. only in very special circumstances. We will then continue to Musa Sibiya tender to schools knowing our cost structure is similar to other Macmillan will sorely miss Musa Sibiya, National Sales booksellers. Are booksellers in other regions experiencing Manager of Macmillan South Africa, who died of malaria in anything like this? early September. Musa was a vital part of the Macmillan team, and during his Regards stay at Macmillan contributed much to the company. He will be Eric Rajcoomar sorely missed and we extend our heartfelt sympathy to his wife, Manager: Adams & Griggs - Booksellers & Stationers Zanele, children and family. 33 Victoria Street, Durban, 4001 South Africa Ntshantsha Mphako Dear Eric Nutrend Publishers is very sad to loose Ntshantsha Mphako, We as the SABA executive will gladly take it up with who passed away on 1 August 2007. other publishers in the country as well if we are She was involved in an accident near Bisho while she was informed by affected booksellers. Please forward on her way to attend a meeting at Zwelitsha. She had a head- details of the publishers concerned for my attention on collision with another vehicle and both drivers of the two or to the chairpersons of the Education Committees vehicles died on the spot. in the various regions. Ntshantsha was employed as a Training and Marketing Co- ordinator based at Umthatha in the Eastern Cape. Kind Regards, She is survived by two daughters and a son. Guru Redhi Moegsien Bester President: SABA Moegsien Bester passed away on 3 October 2007. Oxford Uni- versity Press (OUP) sends sincerest condolences and support to his family, friends and colleagues. We have lost a good friend To send a letter to the editor, please email: and incredible colleague and will miss him dearly. Moegsien

[email protected] and we will find the right was with OUP for 20 years. person to answer you queries.

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