A quiet conversation at the Kingsmead Book Fair became a reflection on shrinking attention spans, digital culture and the fragile future of reading
What happens when artists challenge beauty, publishing and politics? A fair like no other
iwalewabooks offers artists, cultural workers and academics a roving space to explore aesthetic and intellectually rigorous modes of publishing
Author and poet Megan Ross designs books and cover artwork for a living. She speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about her process
A veteran author and part-time festival director, Nthikeng Mohlele can attest to the respective experiences being irreconcilable. Or are they?
Jacana Media was established in 2002. We are the preeminent independent publishing firm in South Africa. We’re devoted to our authors’ imaginations, both in fiction and…
Writers, publishers and bookshops are trying to keep afloat during the extended lockdown with digital and virtual offerings
Publishers that flout sound peer review practices encourage bogus reports with widespread ramifications
"Too often I have been on platforms that bemoan the shortage of storybooks in the mother tongue."
Publishing in the academic world is extremely important, but why does it seem to be such a long, winding and twisted process?
The aim of the event is to encourage young people as well as illustrators and authors.
It’s a race that fits the Blade Runner playbook: five authors working on three “definitive accounts” all hurtling towards one deadline.
Bronwyn Law-Viljoen does not shy away from the manifold challenges of publishing and running a bookshop.
An new website is making romance stories from the region accessible to a diaspora across the world.
South African-based author Sarah Lotz was scraping by before a British publishing house offered her a six-figure deal.
"Fear of Amazon" may not yet be a phrase in the dictionary, but it is the sentiment that underlies the merger between Random House and Penguin.
The continent was not portrayed as sexy at the Frankfurt Book Fair, but at least it led to sales.
It looks like a large, clumsy, see-through photocopier, which is sort of what it is. But it is a thousand times more powerful.
The marginalisation of local languages will continue and nonstandard English is the future to embrace.
Historically, only a tiny proportion of published books have made it into Braille. But technology now means no book is off limits, writes Peter White
