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Browsing Research Articles (Information Science) by Author "Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette"
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...