• Governments love books (and electronic books too) country reports
• Textbook Rental Schemes in English /in Russian
• European Publishing Training Needs in the Information Society II Project
• Education for All 2000: Textbook Provision at the end of the Century
  
• Istvan Bart: Publishers' Associations and the Book Trade
• Grzegorz Boguta: The Organisation of the Work and Activities of Publishing Associations
• John Hitchin: European Union Legislation and Regulation as it Affects the Book Trade. Prospects for states seeking access to the EU.
• Pernille Askerud: Textbooks for developing economies: Why projects fail

• The IPA and its Congresses by Rayner Unwin (Logos article)
• Books for all? Unesco's long love affair with the book by Julian Behrstock (Logos article)
• Publishing Legislation Online Project 

The Establishment, Operation and Function of Trade Organisations in the Advancement of the Publishing Industry 

The author is the director of Corvina Publishers in Hungary and the President of the Hungarian Publishers' and Booksellers' Association. 

text in English, 138 kb Word download

text in Russian, 118 kb Word download
 
 

John Hitchin: European Union Legislation and Regulation as it Affects the Book Trade. Prospects for states seeking access to the EU. 

The text attempts to summarize the ways in, which politicians and bureaucrats are legislating and regulating the commercial world and in particular that of bookselling. Written in February 1999. 

The author is the President of the European Booksellers Federation
34A rue du Grand Hospice B - 1000 Brussels Belgium
phone (32 2) 223 4940, fax (32 2) 223 4941, e-mail: <eurobooks@skynet.be> 

text in English 62 kb Word download

Pernille Askerud: Textbooks for developing economies: Why projects fail

An independent consultant who has worked closely with UNESCO and other agencies dealing with textbook projects and the development of national publishing capacity in developing countries.

She is the author of "A Guide to Sustainable Book Provision" which is available from UNESCO Paris, copies should be requested from <msauliere@unesco.org>. 
<PernilleAskerud@compuserve.com> 

text in English 24 kb Word download

Grzegorz Boguta: The Organisation of the Work and Activities of Publishing Associations

The text is based on the author's experience of running the Polish Chamber of Books in the years 1990-98 and also the seminars on Publishers Associations he conducted in Bratislava, Kiev, Almaty and Ulan Bator in 1999. The author is the president of Metapress Ltd. and a former CEO of PWN Publishers in Poland and a former chairman of the Polish Chamber of Books.

text in English, 96 kb Word download

text in Russian

Education for All 2000 - Textbook Provision at the End of the Century

These papers provide an overview of the state of textbook publishing in the countries of Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It is the first attempt to bring together a snapshot picture of what has happened over the last ten years and what still needs to be done in the next ten. The texts were prepared for the Textbook & Learning Materials 1990 - 1999 section of the Education for All 2000 Project assessment commissioned by UNESCO/Danida Basic Learning Materials Initiative in 1999.
The creation of these papers was possible thanks to the invaluable contribution of Snejana Slantcheva, Open Society Institute Policy Fellow.