World Bank Group, 2014
This guide by the World Bank provides detailed descriptions of and solutions to the book procurement process, from publishing to distributing. Possible outcomes, negative and positive, are explored.
Bangladesh - Can Incentives for Community Authors Reduce Shortages in Minority Language Reading Materials?
South Africa - Results-Based Financing and the Book Supply Chain : Motivating Writers and Publishers to Create Quality Storybooks
REACH - World Bank Group 2019
This final report details how the REACH project established a diverse, nation-wide public-private partnership to raise awareness of the critical need for storybooks. For the first time at a national level, literacy experts from across South Africa convened to discuss reading for pleasure.
Pratham Books Style Guide
The Book Dash Manual
Survey of Children's Reading Materials in African Languages in Eleven Countries
RTI International 2016
This report provides a detailed description of the current supply of early-grade reading materials in African languages in the following 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Growing the Local Book Industry: The Experience of a Publishing Collaborative in Rwanda
Save the Children 2020
This guide to the ‘whole book chain’ approach addresses every step of a book’s journey from authorship to child and emphasizes the need for sustainable, profitable industries which will guarantee availability of local-language, contextually relevant reading materials to support a culture of reading in the long term.
Global Book Fund (Global Book Alliance) Feasibility Study
Global Book Fund 2016
This comprehensive resource preceded the formation of the Global Book Alliance. Among other topics, it explores the challenges related to books and book supply chains, procurement and usage of books. There are statistics and facts that support a great need for addressing access to books worldwide.
Technical Brief: Book Supply Chain - The Process and Cost of Getting Teaching and Learning Materials to Kids
USAID
This technical brief presents the technical and logistical challenges encountered by the ACCELERE! Project during planning, forecasting, title development, publishing, printing, procuring, and distributing training and learning materials to Congolese students, teachers, directors, and inspectors and provides recommendations for future implementers on keys to a successful teaching and learning materials supply chain in DRC.
