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Leserskring : the story of South Africa’s most successful commercial book club

dc.contributor.authorKlingenberg, Jana
dc.contributor.emailjana.klingenberg@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-20T11:38:22Z
dc.date.issued2020-12
dc.description.abstractNasionale 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.departmentInformation Scienceen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2021-10-19
dc.description.librarianhj2021en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://link.springer.com/journal/12109en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKlingenberg, 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.issn1053-8801 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1936-4792 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1007/s12109-020-09762-w
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/81913
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSpringeren_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.subjectLeserskring/Leisure Booksen_ZA
dc.subjectCommercial book cluben_ZA
dc.subjectNasionale Pers/Naspersen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africa (SA)en_ZA
dc.subject.otherEngineering, built environment and information technology articles SDG-04
dc.subject.otherSDG-04: Quality education
dc.subject.otherEngineering, built environment and information technology articles SDG-10
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.titleLeserskring : the story of South Africa’s most successful commercial book cluben_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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