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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.
• 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 comissioned 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)

Others

• Handbooks on cultural NGOs management and fundraising (available in Albanian, Bulgarian, English, Georgian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian and Ukrainian) developed by The Fund for Arts and Culture
• Measuring Cultural Participation - a handbook issued by UNESCO that provides a state-of-the-art reference guide for the measurement of cultural participation and consumption, with particular attention to its feasibility in developing countries. It includes and comments on examples from national and international case studies.
• Authors Guide to the Frankfurt Book Fair - includes strategies for success in Frankfurt, as well as cost break-downs and a planning timeline (in English)