There are good books being published across Africa right now - in English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana, French, Swahili - that almost nobody outside the publisher's home market can find. Not because they're hard to get hold of. Because they're invisible....
If you've ever sent an ONIX file to a retailer or distributor and heard nothing back, you probably assumed everything was fine. In most industries, no news is good news. In ONIX, silence can mean your data was quietly set aside and never used. Most platforms that...
Here's a scenario that will be familiar to most publishers: you update the price on a title. You fix it in your own system, send an email to your distributor, update the spreadsheet you send to retailers, and make a note to check whether the online stores have...