Booksellers are weathering the high street storm partly because they offer consumers more than just retail.
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Fewer books will be available to South Africans, and the books remaining under copyright will be more expensive, if the country gives in to US pressure to extend its copyright term.
Political books touches a certain chord in South African society that makes them bestsellers.
It’s easier to make the list than you might think.
Despite dire predictions, bookstores are doing well: they are curators of taste and community hubs. But their challenges are many – from the arrival of Amazon Down Under to a ‘post-truth’ climate that devalues knowledge.
Reports of the decline of the eBook are premature. The publishing industry is changing rapidly and data that appears robust tells us less than it once did.
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Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
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PhD Candidate in Creative Writing, The University of Queensland
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Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science, Northeastern University
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Associate Professor, Publishing, University of Pretoria
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures, UCL