www.sabooksellers.com Issue 89, Jun – Aug 2017 “ These books really help a lot. I always have them every year as they changed my exam results.” – High School Learner NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION DIGITAL OXFORD READING TREE Brand new! Oxford Reading Tree’s favourite characters Chip, Biff, Kipper and Floppy, are now available in digital format. Stories are packed separately for grades 1, 2 and 3 and photocopiable worksheets are included for each grade. The use of digital readers may ease the teaching task as digital readers can be used for front-of-class reading. The photocopiable worksheets can also be acquired separately to be used along with the printed versions of readers. Included are: • interactive and fun • provides guidelines for activity pages the teacher • large variety of activities • provides links with CAPS • assists with the consolidation of reading and language skills Ook beskikbaar in Afrikaans as Oxford Oxford Storieboom Digi tale Storieboom Leesboeke 021 596 2300 | www.oxford.co.za OxfordSASchools @OxfordSASchools Contents REGULARS GENERAL TRADE EDUCATION 4 • S A Booksellers National Executive Committee 12 The Johannesburg Review of Books 21 Battle of the Books • Bookmark What we’ve all been waiting for… Creating a buzz around reading • SA Booksellers Association 14 Author profile 22 Reading revolution 6 From the Editor Bontle Senne The gift of words 7 Books in Focus 8 From the President 16 South Africa Children’s Book Fair 23 South African solutions 9 SA Bookseller Association initiatives Set to rock Johannesburg Showcased abroad • The all-new Cape Town Book Sale 17 South African Book Fair 24 Not just another study guide • World Book Day celebrations Ready to tell #OURSTORIES No one-size-fits-all when it comes to 29 Member Listing learning styles 18 A different view TREND WaTCH Franschhoek Literary Festival LIBRARIES 10 Trade sector report in a morning 2017 First quarter 19 Bookselling legend: 26 Increasing capacity and Maria Lastrucci empowering youth 11 National Reading Survey With the NLSA An update on the reading and A life in books book-reading behaviour of adult 20 Bookshops in focus 27 My Library, Your Library South Africans Caxton Books SA Library Week 28 Franschhoek Literary Festival Far reaching effect on the local community CAPS aligned Supporting high school learners to achieve their best STUDY GUIDES EXAM PRACTICE BOOKS LITERATURE STUDY GUIDES GRADE 8 –12 GRADE 10 –12 GRADE 10 –12 Step-by-step explanations Follows National Examination Themes, plots and characters and worked examples. Guidelines. thoroughly explained. Annotated diagrams and CAPS-compliant Diagrams summarise illustrated concepts. exam papers. important content. Graded activities Complete memos with Thought-provoking exercises and answers. mark allocations. and model answers. t. 021 532 6008 e. [email protected] www.x-kit.com << baCK TO CONTENTS SA Booksellers National Executive Committee NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SA BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT AND CENTRAL REGION CHAIRPERSON Issue 89 • Jun – Aug 2017 Guru Redhi [email protected] • 032 945 1240 EDITOR Jessica Faircliff EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING +27 (0)28 312 4799 +27 (0)83 469 2966 • [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT AND DIGITAL SECTOR CHAIRPERSON SUBSCRIPTIONS Samantha Faure Melvin Kaabwe +27 (0)21 697 1164 • [email protected] [email protected] • 083 408 7414 FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS Olinka Nel, Freda van Wyk, Angela Briggs, Jenny Hobbs, Patsy Geach VICE PRESIDENT AND ACADEMIC CHAIRPERSON PHOTOGRAPHS Thanks to all for photographic contributions Mohamed Kharwa [email protected] • 031 337 2112 Design and Layout: Through the Looking Glass Printed by: Paarl Media TREASURER, EDUCATION AND 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 Website Development: Country Digital [email protected] • 072 220 5311 Website Hosting: Databias ABOUT THE SA BOOKSELLERS’ ASSOCIATION The SA Booksellers Association represents a united front NORTHERN REGION CHAIRPERSON 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 lobby government on all issues pertinent to the book trade. The Executive Committee of SA Booksellers and the Editor thank all 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. 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At what must have been the Sefika PAN-AFRICAN significantly increased Awards Dinner, Elitha van der Sandt WRITING its stockholding of major delivered a speech on the findings of the CATALOGUE 2017 Book Reading Survey the South African works of black literature Book Development Council (SABDC) across its stores.” had done in 2006. She spoke passionately about the state of reading in South Africa and what needed to change within the 1 industry to get more people reading. The SABDC did a follow up to that survey this year and sadly the findings do Week reaches far into the hearts of on the task of analyzing international book not show a huge increase in the number of communities all over the country and fairs for its IPA Global Book Fair Report adult South African’s that read on a regular World Book Day celebrations saw books and what is clear from the IPA’s high­level basis. That number has in fact dropped created in isiXhosa and isiZulu published overview of the book fair scene is that “The from 58% in 2006 to 47% in 2016. News­ specifically for donation during the week main function of professional book fairs papers still make up the largest portion of for the first time this year. is to be a market place for trade profes­ reading material and only one third, 34%, I do believe that the landscape is sionals. Book rights are bought and sold, claim to be reading books in a printed changing. It may have been slow to move and agents pitch new titles to publishers… form. Book readers continue to be dis­ but there is now a groundswell pushing In recent years, buying and selling rights proportionally younger, from higher LSM through the local publishing industry and I has become the most dynamic activity of groups, well educated, white and female. believe that publishers like Cover­to­Cover fairs,” states their introduction. Since the first report there has been who focus specifically on books written by And while the driving engine of a marked growth in the number and and for the African South African youth many book fairs is business, this doesn’t diversity of South African authors being will go from strength to strength.