www.sabooksellers.com Issue 76, March – May 2014 NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION Ad-BookToken-FAp.indd 1 2013/02/20 12:50 PM Contents REGULARS 12 Trend Forecast 20 Biblionef 4 From the President’s Desk Five points to ponder as we settle Support required for 1 Million Books 6 • SA Booksellers National Executive into 2014 campaign Committee • Bookmark GENERAL TRADE 20 Starry eyed and hopeful • The SA Booksellers Office The Future of Exclusive Books is 13 (P)interested? • About the SA Booksellers Association looking good How visual moodboards can 29 Member Listing benefit business LIBRARIES E-BOOKS 14 Salon du livre at de la 21 Limiting access 7 2014 Calendar presse jeunesse Pricing people out of reading Perspectives from the SABDC delegation Dates to diarise 22 BiblioTech 8 Victory for local e-booksellers 15 Children’s books on the up and up The 21st century all-digital library Will this boost youth fiction sales in VAT on digital products gets go-ahead 23 Juta and EBSCO the future? 9 You love books … I love books … A local first 16 A space apart we all love books ACADEMIC AND EDUCATION Enough already! SA Booksellers Association’s offering at the SA Book Fair 24 Education in South Africa 10 Digital retail in South Africa Problems and future possibilities Ready for liftoff 18 UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day 28 E-learning for booksellers 21 February 2014 – celebrating A new path, not the end of the road language diversity << BACK TO CONTENTS From the President’s Desk Dear Members, University booksellers have been The last few months have seen major adversely affected by holdups in the changes in the ownership of the retail awarding of bursary funds to the book trade. Exclusive Books and Van NSFAS students this year. Reports in Schaik are both in the hands of new the newspapers suggest that there was owners. Happily they are groups with considerable fraud in the past, with knowledge of our industry and we applicants completing their forms hope that the new ideas they will bring dishonestly to access the loans. If this was to the companies will increase their so, we must support the administrators sales and achieve their goals. General when they verify the details supplied. book retailers have as a group not been But it is also important that the bursaries increasing sales in recent times, so it was should be paid out at the beginning of pleasing to see that there were increases the year. Unisa students can register in in sales for some weeks in December. December and are expected to hand The Receiver of Revenue recently in their first assignments at the end of made a further announcement regarding February. If their book funds are not to wish librabries well with the event, the implementation of VAT on digital released by mid-February, which is the and we encourage our members to get media. The foreign suppliers, such as case for most students this year, their involved in this important promotion of Amazon, are to be used for the collection studies are affected. NSFAS has also books and reading. of the tax, which will be much more switched its method of distributing the Neilsen Bookdata provides a valuable effective than trying to collect from the funds: in the past funds were given to service to our industry in collecting individual importers. It will also give the universities to administer. They are trade statistics. The general book retailers South African digital retailers a chance to now moving by degrees to a system have always given broad support, and compete fairly. where NSFAS approves the bursary it is pleasing to see that the panel of The distribution of school books was and the funds are handed out through contributors is being extended to include very much in the news last year. While sBux – a firm that distributes funds to several more firms. It will now include all there was still interest this year, criticism approved suppliers in much the same the Bargain Books shops. has been muted, and we hope that this way as a credit card company does. The The South African Book Fair is means that most of the children have student receives vouchers to be spent on also due to take place soon. For those received their books. The new CAPS particular needs. Food, accommodation booksellers who have never attended, books given to the grade 7, 8, 9 and 12 and book allocations are put into this is an experience not to miss. There students gave retailers a boost. Next year different “pockets” to ensure they are is a wide variety of talks, book launches much less money is likely to be spent spent on those needs. Booksellers are and debates, so plan your visit carefully. as only replacements will be needed for looking forward to assisting the students The Fair is moving to a non-profit model, books purchased 3 years ago, and there as the funds become available. which will unlock more support from will be top-ups to replace lost books. We are just moving out of the “strike the state, and could result in a more Looking ahead booksellers are hoping that season” in tertiary education. The exciting and stimulating event. It is truly the Grade R students will be given support University of KZN has agreed to give extra international, attracting visitors from material soon, and that the language bursaries, and the Durban University of around Africa, and around the world and books which have remained unchanged Technology has apparently agreed to give puts South Africa at the centre of world for some years now, will be changed. all students tablets. These are unlikely to publishing for a week a year. Pencil in the The tender for the appointment of a take the place of books at this stage, but dates 13th to 15th June. At R50 a day the supplier to KZN Education Department will provide an excellent communication Fair is now affordable to all! was recently advertised and we look medium on the campus as well as access And while you have your pencil in forward to seeing which company will to study material as the campuses are all your hand, please note also that your win it. We must note the growth of covered by wireless networks. SA Booksellers Annual General Meetings private schools charging lower fees than Bookshops specializing in Library are to be held in Durban from 25th to the traditional elite schools around the supply remain active in the Western Cape 27th August. A provisional booking has country. Well-appointed Curro schools and KZN, where the eThekwini Public been made at the new Coastlands Hotel are enjoying the support of parents in Library recently advertised a renewal of and Conference Centre near Gateway their areas, and show that people are its tender for book supply. Purchases are in Umhlanga Rocks. Your executive is willing to pay for a quality education. The expected to continue at similar levels as finalizing an interesting program for you, children are given tablets which provide in the past. The KZN Provincial Library so we hope you will attend. access to all the learning material they is also going through many boxes of need. The digital books are purchased books after their first submission in directly from the publishers. This gives several months. National Library Week Sydwell Molosi, booksellers pause for thought. takes place in mid-March. We would like President, SA Booksellers Association 4 REGULARS << BACK TO CONTENTS << BACK TO CONTENTS SA Booksellers National Executive Committee PRESIDENT AND EASTERN REGION CHAIRPERSON NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION Sydwell Molosi (President Bookshop) Issue 76 • March – May 2014 +27 (0)47 534 0757 • [email protected] EDITOR Jessica Faircliff ASSISTANT EDITOR Nicolene Finlayson VICE PRESIDENT AND ACADEMIC CHAIRPERSON Mohammad Kharwa (Pro Visions Books) EDITORIAL AND AdvERTISING +27 (0)28 312 3224 +27 (0)83 469 2966 • [email protected] +27 (0)31 337 2112 • [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS Samantha Faure +27 (0) 21 945 1572 • [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT AND NORTHERN REGION CHAIRPERSON FEATURED CONTRIBUTERS Alan Vesty, Michelle Cooper Riaz Hassim (Book Express) PHOTOGRAPHS iStockphoto. 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Through strategic liaison with the different Janine O’Connor (Books & Books) sectors of the industry and provinces, SA Booksellers strives +27 (0)31 563 6288 • [email protected] 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. EDUCATION AND SOUTHERN REGION CHAIRPERSON The AGM is open to all members of SA Booksellers and is Shahied Noordien (University Bookshop) a conference full of information, energetic discussions, pertinent topics and eloquent speakers. This is an +27 (0)21 852 5903 • [email protected] opportunity for education for all, keeping members at the cutting edge of developments in our ever changing industry.