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| dc.contributor.author | Klingenberg, Jana
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| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-20T11:38:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Nasionale Pers established a mail-order book club based on the Bertelsmann model called Leserskring in 1980. The club became incredibly successful and by 1985 it had a membership of 250,000. However, technology and a changing South African landscape brought challenges to the club. In 2016, Naspers announced that the iconic book club’s doors would be shut for good. Some believe that the club experienced its success due to the culture of reading and publishing that had developed among mostly white South Africans during the apartheid period, and that with democratisation the niche it once held slowly started to disappear. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.department | Information Science | en_ZA |
| dc.description.embargo | 2021-10-19 | |
| dc.description.librarian | hj2021 | en_ZA |
| dc.description.uri | https://link.springer.com/journal/12109 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Klingenberg, J. Leserskring: The Story of South Africa’s Most Successful Commercial Book Club. Publishing Research Quarterly 36, 570–580 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-020-09762-w. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1053-8801 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1936-4792 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1007/s12109-020-09762-w | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/81913 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | © 2020, Springer Science Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. The original publication is available at : https://link.springer.com/journal/12109. | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Leserskring/Leisure Books | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Commercial book club | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Nasionale Pers/Naspers | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | South Africa (SA) | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.other | Engineering, built environment and information technology articles SDG-04 | |
| dc.subject.other | SDG-04: Quality education | |
| dc.subject.other | Engineering, built environment and information technology articles SDG-10 | |
| dc.subject.other | SDG-10: Reduced inequalities | |
| dc.title | Leserskring : the story of South Africa’s most successful commercial book club | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Postprint Article | en_ZA |
