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  • India Academic Journal Publishing Market Profile 2006 HTML | PDF

    The country has over 340 universities and institutions of higher education recognised by the University Grants Commission, and some 10.4m students were enrolled in them in 2004-5. There are more than 240 medical colleges admitting over 26,000 students per year, and almost 17,000 colleges engaged in some form of higher education. Libraries have traditionally used subscription agents for their foreign journals purchases, but these agents are all Indian companies, and international agents such as EBSCO and Swets play no active role in the journals subscriptions supply. The privately funded colleges and institutions market promises significant potential for UK publishers.

  • India Publishing Market Profile 2008 HTML | PDF

    In just the last few years, India has become the fastest-growing English-language book market in the world, and offers great opportunities for those publishers willing to invest in this complex and competitive market. Although the Indian book market is estimated to be only one third of the size of the UK's, its importance will be transformed if the accepted growth rate of 10 per cent per annum since 2003 continues.

  • Iran Publishing Market Profile 2007 HTML | PDF

    The existence of the Tehran International Book Fair, with its subsidised prices, attracts about 65% of the value of a full year's book exports from UK to Iran. It is almost entirely focused on the Academic/Professional/ Reference/STM sector. However Iran has never signed any of the international copyright conventions (although keen to join the WTO), and as such there is no copyright protection for foreign books in Iran.

  • Iraq Education and Training System (3rd draft) HTML | PDF

     Prior to the first Gulf war in 1991 the educational system in Iraq was widely regarded as one of the best in the region with approximately 100% gross enrolment for primary schooling and high levels of literacy for both men and women. Higher educational establishments were of an international standard and staffed high quality personnel. Investments in the system for the period mid-70s to 1990 were relatively high with education accounting for over 5% of the state budget in 1989 which compares favourably with an average for developing countries of 3.8%. This British Council draft describes the education and training system in Iraq in 2003.

  • Italy Publishing Market Profile 2003 HTML | PDF

    It is quite surprising that a country with a language that is little used internationally, and a very small export market, can support such a highly developed and energetic publishing industry. Italy parades as many world-class publishers as some of its larger neighbours, and competes vigorously in the trade market for the rights to global bestsellers. Levels of publishing output are high by any standard. So are the production quality standards, and prices are competitive. Distribution and retail have also undergone a transformation in recent times, with the rapid development of stylish bookshop chains ensuring much greater nationwide access, and availability to the public of an ever growing number of new titles.