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The fifth edition of African Books in Print: new features, and old problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Hans M. Zell
Hans M. Zell*
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Hans Zell Publishing Consultants, 11 Richmond Road, PO Box 56 Oxford OX1 2SJ UK
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The new fifth edition of African Books in Print/Livres Africains Disponibles, (ABIP) has been in the making for some time. Initially plagued by persistent software problems with the database, publication of the new edition was further delayed because of many late responses by publishers verifying and updating records on file for their titles. Moreover, data gathering from Africa remains an uphill task, not made easier by serious communication problems and frequently unreliable postal services. However, after a rather prolonged hatching period, the new edition will now be published in May 2000. Happily, by virtue of the fact that the title database is constantly kept up-to-date through new listings in the quarterly African Book Publishing Record (ABPR), the delay in publication has not affected currency, and the fifth edition of ABIP will provide details of African books that are currently in print as at the end of 1999.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 82 , 2000 , pp. 39 - 45
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Copyright © International African Institute 2000

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1 African Books in Print/Livres Africains Disponibles, 5th edition. Edited by Hans M. Zell; Associate Editor: Cécile Lomer. Ca. 2,300pp., 2 volume set, ca. £450.00 set cased, ISBN 1 873836961. To be published in May 2000, by Bowker-Saur/Reed Business Information, Windsor Court, East Grinstead House, East Grinstead, RH19 1XA, UK. Tel: +44-(0)1342-326972 Fax: +44-(0)1342 336197 e-mail: [email protected]

2 The database used was the DOS-based Advanced Revelation, with word processing output to Microsoft Word. Typesetting was done in Adobe Pagemaker version 6.5