www.sabooksellers.com Issue 88, March – May 2017 Making phonics fun for over 45 years. NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION NEW in 2017! for grades 4-7 The Oxford South African Thematic Atlas for grades 4–7 offers a superb collection of up-to-date maps and includes content on all the CAPS Social Sciences topics for Grades 4 to 7. ¡ Colourful, accessible and engaging ¡ Covers all the Geography and History CAPS topics ¡ Takes a fun approach to map skills ¡ All the maps you need, and many more ¡ Free activity worksheets from www.oxford.co.za Oxford South African Thematic Atlas for grades 4–7 ISBN 978 0 19 041621 8 CAPS Oxford Suid-Afrikaanse Tematiese Atlas vir graad 4–7 ISBN 978 0 19 041981 3 Contact us 021 596 2300 | www.oxford.co.za OxfordSASchools @OxfordSASchools SCH_AD_13525_17_Thematic_Atlas_Gr4-7_Independant_Education.indd 1 2017/02/06 07:55 Contents REGULARS GENERAL TRADE EDUCATION 4 • SA Booksellers National Executive Committee 13 Exclusive Books’ latest move 19 Back to school • Bookmark Partnering with Kobo Business as usual? • SA Booksellers Association 14 Lunch at the Social Kitchen 20 Learning to read made fun 6 From the Editor With a black entrepreneur How visual and auditory perception 7 Books in Focus (NEW!) games help children 8 President’s Letter 15 The audiobook: a grand vehicle 25 Member Listing for a great story A South African angle ACADEMIC TREND WATCH 16 Diversity in literature 22 The changing face of 9 The ghost of Christmas past Creating a vibrant ecosystem academic bookselling Book sales in General Trade 2016 How to survive 18 The Booksellers’ Programme 10 South Africa three-year overview Accredited online training For weeks 1–52 (2014–2016) (excl. School and Academic) 12 Comparing the UK and the US book markets Does one lead and the other follow? Bringing you the best of Letterland A household name for over 45 years, Letterland has had widespread success in more than 100 countries. The unique phonics- based approach to teaching reading, writing and spelling uses characters to make plain black letter shapes come to life. Contact us to place your Letterland order Tel: 021 532 6008 Email: [email protected] << BACK TO CONTENTS SA Booksellers National Executive Committee NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT AND CENTRAL REGION CHAIRPERSON Issue 88 • March – May 2017 Guru Redhi [email protected] • 032 945 1240 EDITOR Jessica Faircliff ASSISTANT EDITOR Elize Knoetze EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING +27 (0)28 312 4799 VICE PRESIDENT AND +27 (0)83 469 2966 • [email protected] DIGITAL SECTOR CHAIRPERSON Melvin Kaabwe SUBSCRIPTIONS Samantha Faure [email protected] • 083 408 7414 +27 (0)21 697 1164 • [email protected] FEATURED CONTRIBUTERS Olinka Nel, Freda van Wyk, Hazel Kenyon, Benjamin Trisk, Kirston Hoets, VICE PRESIDENT AND ACADEMIC CHAIRPERSON Sarah Ohlson de Fine Mohamed Kharwa [email protected] • 031 337 2112 PHOTOGRAPHS 123RF. Thanks to all for photographic contributions Design and Layout: Through the Looking Glass TREASURER, EDUCATION AND Printed by: Paarl Media SOUTHERN REGION CHAIRPERSON Hentie Gericke [email protected] • 021 981 1270 HONORARY SECRETARY Peter Adams SA Booksellers, PO Box 870, Bellville, 7535 [email protected] • 086 134 1341 Tel: (021) 697 1164, Fax: 021 697 1410 [email protected] www.sabooksellers.com Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 09h00 to 13h00 EASTERN REGION CHAIRPERSON Sydwell Molosi Website Design: Through the Looking Glass [email protected] • 072 220 5311 Website Development: Country Digital Website Hosting: Databias ABOUT THE SA BOOKSELLERS’ ASSOCIATION NORTHERN REGION CHAIRPERSON The SA Booksellers Association represents a united front for booksellers. Through strategic liaison with the different Riaz Hassim sectors of the industry and provinces, SA Booksellers strives [email protected] • 011 482 843 to regulate the book-trade, reminding publishers to act as wholesalers and booksellers as retailers. The annual SA Booksellers AGM has historically been co-located with the Publishers Association of South Africa (PASA) AGM. GENERAL TRADE CHAIRPERSON The AGM is open to all members of SA Booksellers and is Olinka Nell a conference full of information, energetic discussions, [email protected] • 011 798 0104 pertinent topics and eloquent speakers. This is an opportunity for education for all, keeping members at the cutting edge of developments in our ever changing industry. SA Booksellers works closely with government departments, LIBRARY CHAIRPERSON educational authorities, and the state tender boards Richard Hargraves concerning matters that affect the trade. [email protected] • 021 447 5682 More than 50% of SA Booksellers members are previously disadvantaged and SA Booksellers is well positioned to The Executive Committee of SA Booksellers and the Editor thank all lobby government on all issues pertinent to the book trade. SA Booksellers provides access to information for all its those who contributed to this issue of Bookmark through articles members, through the commissioning of research papers and/or advertising. and the gathering of news, to the effective dissemination of this information via the industry magazine Bookmark and through www.sabooksellers.com. SA Booksellers National Office Bookmark, the official magazine of SA Booksellers, is distributed free of charge to all members as well as to all influential people in the book trade from publishers to Samantha Faure government departments. The digital edition is sent to [email protected] an ever increasing subscriber database. This magazine 021 697 1164 is a mouthpiece for SA Booksellers members as much as it is a source of information. Send a letter to the editor at [email protected] to get your views published. << BACK TO CONTENTS << BACK TO CONTENTS From the Editor The shortlist for the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards 2017 has been announced and South Africa has a few nominees. The new and much touted Exclusive Books Hyde Park store has been shortlisted for the Bookstore of the year. They are competing against old timer Shakespeare and Company in Paris, France and New Zealand’s Time Out Bookstore in Auckland for the title. The awards, which are held in partnership with the UK Publishers Association celebrate excellence in sixteen categories, including international publishing, academic and scholarly publishing, children’s publishing, literary translation and digital innovation. The second South African contester, in for the second year in a row, is the Open Book Festival run by SA Booksellers Association member The “More books written by with the book, which she then commits Book Lounge. Open Book is up against to memory to tell her new friends at her the Krakow festival in Poland and South African voices for new school. I could not have bought her a Brazillian festivals Flupp and FLIP (Festa young South Africans is better gift. It is giving her self confidence, Literaria Internacional de Paraty). independence, a story to tell. Jacks Thomas, Director of the London exactly what we need to The beginning of the year is always Book Fair, said how delighted he was get people reading.” a busy time for booksellers, especially with the global representation of the list, academic and education booksellers with all five continents represented. “The voices for young South Africans is exactly and our members are showing much strength and breadth of the entrants on what we need to get people reading. resilience and ingenuity in keeping their this list is impressive, and is a testament to Reading for pleasure is so important. doors open and getting good books into the passion, commitment and creativity Reading fiction specifically is a bigger the hands of scholars. of all those involved in publishing, selling indicator of success at school than parents’ Keeping with the theme of education, and bringing books to a wider audience.” income, or academic achievements. Sarah Ohlson de Fine from Learning Tools Stephen Lotinga, Chief Executive, Reading fiction, traditional tales, fairy tells us about perception and offers some the Publishers Association, took the tales, is a practice that opens up whole ideas and resources that will help children opportunity to mention the importance worlds and possibilities of worlds and new with reading from the very beginning. of diversity in publishing yet again. ideas to those who may feel trapped by We also have three articles looking at “We are especially delighted to see their small lives. Reading allows children trends in bookselling. One from Olinka the introduction of the Inclusivity in to imagine that the world could be Nel looking at South Africa over the Publishing award for publishers who different, and can give to them the power Christmas period, Freda van Wyk gives are excelling in their efforts to improve to imagine how they could change their us a three year review of South African inclusivity in the publishing supply lives for the better. The best thing we can publishing and bookselling and then Hazel chain,” he said. do for the children in our immediate Kenyon from Nielsen in the UK compares There are a lot of pieces which ken and our country in general is to give the leading markets of the UK and US. mention diversity in this issue of Book­ them books that will engage them. The SA Booksellers Association mark. The need for fair representation I have a six year old daughter who executive has also been hard at work with is a necessity that is currently rippling has just started Grade 1 and is learning many plans afoot to grow and strengthen across the entire sector. That is why we how to read. I bought her a slipcase from bookselling in South Africa this year, are so pleased to have a new advertiser Oxford titled Practice Your Phonics with from high­level involvement in the LTSM this year in Cover2Cover Books.