Browsing by UP Author "Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette"

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Browsing by UP Author "Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette"

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  • The accidental growth of book history : a literature review of print culture and book history studies in South Africa 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette (Unisa Press, 2013)
    The study of book history is in its infancy in South Africa, with a small group of scholars working in the area and little sense of a shared body of literature, which could be used as foundational texts for those wishing ...
  • Annual book industry survey 2011 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette; South African Book Development Council; South Africa. Dept. of Arts and Culture; SABDC; DAC; PASA; Struik, Willem; Galloway, Francis (Publishers' Association of South Africa, 2013-09-12)
    An analysis of the profiles of all 141 PASA members actively engaged in book publishing or distribution and 27 of the larger local suppliers which are not members of PASA was made and the turnover not captured by the survey ...
  • Annual book publishing industry survey report 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette; South African Book Development Council; South Africa. Dept. of Arts and Culture; SABDC; DAC; PASA; Struik, Willem; Galloway, Francis (Publishers' Association of South Africa, 2013-09-12)
    The importance of statistical information on the South African book industry has been noted by various role-players. Apart from the vested interest of publishers and the book trade, statistical information on the industry ...
  • Annual book publishing industry survey report 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette; South African Book Development Council; South Africa. Dept. of Arts and Culture; SABDC; DAC; PASA; Struik, Willem; Galloway, Francis; Labuschagne, Margaret (Publishers' Association of South Africa, 2013-09-12)
    The importance of statistical information on the South African book industry has been noted by various role-players. Apart from the vested interest of publishers and the book trade, statistical information on the industry ...
  • Book publishing industry annual survey broad trends over three year (2008-2010) 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette; South African Book Development Council; South Africa. Dept. of Arts and Culture; SABDC; DAC; PASA; Struik, Willem; Galloway, Francis; Labuschagne, Margaret (Publishers' Association of South Africa, 2013-09-12)
    This Broad Trends Report is based on a like-for-like comparison of all the entities that participated in all three of the 2008, 2009 and 2010 annual surveys, in order to highlight the patterns and trends manifested over ...
  • Compiled hindsight? Publishers’ archives in South Africa 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette (Walter de Gruyter, 2013)
    Publishing is an important cultural industry, and its products form part of the record of our social and cultural history. Yet what of the records of the publishers themselves – the voluminous correspondence, financial ...
  • Concepts of reading in South African reading promotion campaigns 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette (Unisa Press, 2017)
    Amid ongoing concerns about the reading decline, the lack of a “reading culture” and children not reading enough, a variety of solutions are put forward, largely in the form of reading promotion campaigns. These campaigns ...
  • The early years of a Dutch publisher in South Africa: a case study of Van Schaik in Pretoria 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette (University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2015)
    Print culture came to South Africa with the Dutch East India Company, followed by the British colonisers. This influence persisted after colonisation officially ended, with the Union of South Africa in 1910. Many early ...
  • Miriam Tlali and Ravan Press : politics and power in literary publishing during the apartheid period 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette (Routledge, 2018)
    In a committed anti-apartheid publisher like Ravan Press in the 1970s and 1980s, the selection of authors was usually based on political or ideological grounds as well as the quality of their writing. As a result, Ravan ...
  • The myth of the ‘book famine’ in African publishing 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette (Routledge, 2021)
    The publishing industry in Africa is usually described in terms of ‘booklessness’, ‘hunger’ or ‘famine’. But does this language of scarcity reflect the realities of book production and consumption? In this paper, the concept ...
  • The production and reception of Deon Meyer’s works : an evaluation of the factors contributing to bestseller status 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette; Buitendach, Samantha (Routledge, 2014-06)
    Deon Meyer is a household name in South Africa as a bestselling crime fiction author. This article explores how and why Meyer’s career has evolved in the way that it has, in an attempt to answer the question of what has ...
  • Publishing South African scholarship in the global academic community 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette (The Royal Society, 2015-09)
    South Africa's academic publishing history has been profoundly influenced by its colonial heritage. This is reflected in the publication of Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society (later, the Royal Society ...
  • South African crime and detective fiction in English : a bibliography and publishing history 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette (Routledge, 2013)
    Against the general assumption that crime and detective fiction has only recently emerged as a genre in South African publishing, this essay will consider the publishing history of this genre in South Africa. The question ...
  • Travelling stories : selling translation rights of Afrikaans fiction to Dutch publishers 
    Buitendach, Samantha; Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette (Springer, 2019-06)
    Publications in minority languages have a very limited audience. Their reach can be extended through the sales of translation rights. This article reports on the results of an exploratory study conducted on the selling of ...
  • Unique perspectives on South Africa’: imagining South Africa through the homebru book marketing campaign, 2002–2012 
    Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette (Routledge, 2014)
    Publishers’ and booksellers’ marketing campaigns are aimed at ‘target audiences’ – groups of potential book buyers who can be demographically and geographically segmented. This segmentation is not always overt, but in ...