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On Reading and Readership

• Next Page Foundation studies on readership in the Arab world (in English and Arabic)
• Stiftung Lesen: a resourceful web space of the German Reading Foundation with access to their various studies on reading (in German)
  

On Translations

• Next Page Foundation studies on translation flows between Eastern Europe and the South Mediterranean (in English)
• Next Page Foundation study on translations from Bulgarian into other languages after 1989 (in Bulgarian with a summary in English)
• UNESCO Index Translationum: the searchable world bibliography of translations
• Statistics and analyses of dynamics of translations across Europe developed by an Austrian consultancy company
• PETRA recommendations (here you can download the recommendations in English, German and in French, as well as summaries in Italian and Spanish)
• Publishing Data and Statistics on Translated Literature in the United Kingdom and Ireland is a study undertaken by Literature Across Frontiers in 2012 that reveals the first ever accurate figures for the number of translated titles published in the British Isles and recommends a mechanism to collect further data.
• A survey of key national organizations in Europe supporting literary translations and exchange, developed by Literature Across Frontiers and prepared by the Budapest Observatory (in English)
• To Be Translated or Not To Be - PEN / IRL report on the international situation of literary translation (in English)
  

On Publishing Industry

• Book Market study of Ukraine (2006) - initiated and supported by the International Renaissance Foundation, the Fund for Central and East European Book Project (Amsterdam) and the MATRA program of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Books and Publishing in Armenia: a profile (2003) by Ingo Eric Schmidt-Braul commisioned by the Council of Europe - a policy report and recommendations for the development of Armenian book sector 
• Frankfurt Book Fair studies on book markets around the world (in English and German)
• The first ever study on digital publishing in developing countries by Octavio Paz for the Alliance of Independent Publishers (in English)
• Useful links to bookstores, libraries, organizations, etc in Armenia compiled by Yerevan Book Capital 2012
• Verleger Vortbildung 2009-2011: the Goethe Institute training program for the book sector in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (in Russian and German). Includes a variety of materials on the publishing industry of participating countries.
• The Resource Centre of the ACP Cultural Observatory offers a range of studies and reference documents on cultural industries in ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) countries, along with a variety of practical tools and concrete examples supporting the implementation of cultural programmes and policies. Materials on Culture & Economy and on IP are particularly relevant for the publishing sector (in English and French)
• Book Publishing in Georgia 2013 - a booklet prepared by Georgian Publishers and Booksellers Association (in English)
• The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections - by Rüdiger Wischenbart, published by O'Reily Media (in English, free of charge, but registration required)
  

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