Practical Guide to Bookselling
Booksellers have the ability to nurture a culture of reading within their communities and have always been crucial in ensuring that books reach readers. Within the developing world book publishing is constrained by a number of factors including low literacy and insecure financial structures, and in this environment the role of the bookseller becomes even more important and also more insecure. To survive, booksellers need both traditional bookselling skills and the ability to plan and work within this challenging environment.
This book provides guidance on establishing and running a successful bookselling business, and is designed to be a resource for both existing and new booksellers. It covers subjects such as starting a business, planning the business, managing both stock and staff, and how to develop new strategies for success.
Edited by a publisher (Bridget Impey) and the President of The Pan-African Booksellers Association (PABA) (Oluronke Orimalade), with contributions from booksellers around the continent, the book draws on personal experiences of the Bookselling business, and provides a practical guide to managing survival and success.
The Pan-African Booksellers Association (PABA) was formed to strengthen their sector and to improve access to books in Africa: they encourage booksellers to support local book-development initiatives, and their activities include skills training and supporting new and existing national booksellers' associations.
Publishers
This book was jointly published with the ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA), which was established in 1983 under the Lomé convention between the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) Group of States and the European Union Member States.
CTA's tasks are to develop and provide services that improve acess to information for agricultural and rural development, and to strengthen the capacity of ACP countries to produce, acquire, exchange and utilise information in this area. CTA's programmes are organised around four principal themes: developing information management and partnership strategies needed for policy formulation and implementation; promoting contact and exchange of experience; developing ACP partners with information on demand; and strengthening their information and communication capacities.
Publication and ordering details
108pp, 297x210mm
ISBN 1 902928 16 4 - English (ISBN-13 978 1 902928 16 6)
ISBN 1 902928 17 2 - French (ISBN-13 978 1 902928 17 3)
£16.95
Publication date: 2005
A limited number of complimentary copies of this publication (in print) are available to libraries in developing and emerging countries. To request a free copy, please email inasp@inasp.info
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Guide pratique de la librairie
Publié sous la direction de Oluronke Orimalade et de Bridget Impey
Les libraires ont la capacité de nourrir une culture de lecture au sein de leurs communautés et ils ont toujours joué un rôle crucial dans la mise à disposition des livres aux lecteurs. Dans le monde en voie de développement, la publication de livres est restreinte par différents facteurs, notamment l'illettrisme et des structures financières précaires. Dans ce contexte, le rôle du libraire devient encore plus important, et également plus précaire. Pour survivre, les libraires doivent posséder des compétences dans le domaine de la librairie traditionnelle et avoir la capacité de planifier et de travailler au sein de cet environnement stimulant.
Le présent ouvrage fournit des conseils sur la création et l'exploitation d'une librairie à succès, et est conçu pour tenir lieu de ressource tant pour les libraires existants que pour les nouveaux libraires. Il couvre des sujets tels que la création d'une librairie, la planification de la librairie, la gestion du stock et du personnel, et l'élaboration de nouvelles stratégies pour réussir dans cette voie.
Publié sous la direction d'une editeur et de la president de l'Association pan-africaine des libraires (PABA), avec la contribution de libraires répartis sur tout le continent, ce livre s'appuie sur des expériences personnelles en matière de librairie et fournit un guide pratique pour la survie et la réussite.
Cet ouvrage est le fruit d'une collaboration entre la PABA (Association panafricaine des libraires), le CTA (Centre technique de Coopération agricole et rurale ACP-UE) et l'INASP (Réseau international pour l'accès aux publications scientifiques).
