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According to this year's Reading the Future report, only 26% of UK book buyers had heard of a Kindle, only 41% knew what a Sony Reader w...

The London Book Fair is now just a few months away, and there is considerable excitement in publishing circles here about the South Africa M...

As of October, Amazon's e-book reader Kindle was made available to South Africans, and even the company's director of Kindle Books, ...

For the past two years, an issue that has cropped up about the Cape Town International Book Fair has been the extremely high cost it involve...

With the word "recession" on almost everyone's lips, there had been some initial scepticism about the success of this year...

The Cape Town Book Fair, which will take place from 13th June to 16th, is now is its fourth year. Organised in collaboration with the Publis...

South Africa may have so far escaped the worst of the global economic crisis, but its effects are certainly being felt. Businesses are strug...

September has been an eventful month for the big guns of the South African publishing industry. The main news was the announcement of the me...

South Africa faces the challenge of boosting a book-reading culture, but because new books are expensive, access to libraries in rural areas...

In a recent piece on The Bookseller, Graeme Neill reported that UK supermarket chain Tesco aims to double book sales to £200m within three y...

The number of visitors to the third Cape Town Book Fair climbed by 1,000 on last year to 51,000 – a welcome increase, especially as the fair...

The wind was strong in Cape Town today, and I felt almost carried along as I walked down to the convention centre about 9.30am. With its bei...

It has been a cold and overcast day in Cape Town and as I arrived at the book fair about 9.30am there were only a few visitors around. By ab...

On arriving at the book fair at about 10am, my initial impression was that it was quiet with not too many visitors compared to previous year...

It’s that time of the year again, when publishers, writers and readers converge on the Cape Town Convention Centre for the annual Cape Town ...

One of my favourite websites is ABEBooks.com, which operates as a sales intermediary for international stores specialising in used and rare ...

In 1998, a curious incident took place in South African publishing. Writer and editor Chris van Wyk had met with a Danish organisation calle...

As a teenager one of my favourite fictional characters was Gordon Comstock, the rather threadbare poet from George Orwell's Keep The Asp...

A few weeks back, the South African newspaper The Weekender carried a story by William Skidelsky called 'Bloggers throw down the gauntl...

A complaint frequently heard in South African literary circles is about the scarcity of book reviews in the newspapers. It's a complaint...