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Help our children fall in love with books this February

The Love Books campaign by Ladles of Love aims to couple feeding with reading

  • Partner Content
5 min read
The various components of the books value chain — spanning writers, publishers, printers, booksellers and distributors — are having to get by using the digital sphere.
AFROLIT SANS FRONTIERES

How a pandemic took the book industry online

Writers, publishers and bookshops are trying to keep afloat during the extended lockdown with digital and virtual offerings

  • Zaza Hlalethwa
6 min read
Love Books owner Kate Rogan (left) and manager Anna Joubert have, in 10 years, transformed the ‘sparse’ bookshop into one that is full of love, books and loyal readers. (Delwyn Verasamy)
KATE ROGAN

You’ve got to Love Books

When Love Books in Melville threw a party to celebrate its 10th birthday, owner Kate Rogan said in her speech that she’d been rather put out when, in the bookshop’s first mention…

  • Shaun De Waal
3 min read