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Paperight

@paperight

Paperight is the world's largest network of print-on-demand bookstores. Sign up your business for free at http://t.co/DB2P2bWu. Tweets by Nick Mulgrew.

 Cape Town, South Africa
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Joined August 2009
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If you're a #Durban #writer do yourself a favour and apply for the next @bookdash. Saturday 7 November. xitter.gq/bookdash/status/651711…
Book Dash (@bookdash) profile pictureBook Dash@bookdash7 Oct 2015
‘We all did something extraordinary there that day…to bring the joy of reading to our small people.’ —Melissa Fagan, Cape Town, August 2014
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Open textbooks. Cape Town. The best people. Meetup with @marknewlyn and @bella_velo 7pm on 6 May. meetup.com/Open-Textbooks-fo…
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Great overview of what the @africastorybook project is doing, and why it's amazing slideshare.net/oerafrica/asp…
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Book Dash@bookdash1 Apr 2015
Writers, illustrators, designers (and more) in Gauteng, join us for #BookDash Jozi, 27 June. Applications open: bookdash.org/book-dash-jozi-…
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@axepolzin Thanks, Alex! I've just published the notes for my talk on the @paperight story site: story.paperight.com/2015/01/…
Paperight and beyond: learning from disappointment

Paperight and beyond: learning from disappointment

At a Mobile Literacy Network Meeting this week hosted by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, I talked about Paperight, why we had to close, and some of the lessons my team and I are taking to our nex…

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Fellow @arthurattwell & team take the tough decision: They are wrapping up @Paperight blog.paperight.com/2014/12/t… Very valuable learning journey.
Wrapping up the Paperight journey

Wrapping up the Paperight journey

Six years ago, I began work on an experiment: if there are copy shops in every corner of the world, what if they could legally, easily print out books for their customers? We could put every book w…

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Final chapter for award-winning SA publishing startup Paperight wp.me/p3AMiX-cSP
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It's a tough day. Sad, proud, optimistic. Wrapping up our part in the #Paperight journey: blog.paperight.com/2014/12/t…
Wrapping up the Paperight journey

Wrapping up the Paperight journey

Six years ago, I began work on an experiment: if there are copy shops in every corner of the world, what if they could legally, easily print out books for their customers? We could put every book w…

blog.paperight.com
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"Institutional licensing: the next textbook business model"—@arthurattwell arthurattwell.com/2014/12/03…
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South African’s Paperight wants to make book printing international wp.me/p3AMiX-ckG
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Do you have a print shop? We're offering free credits for new international print shops blog.paperight.com/2014/11/f…
Free credits for new international print shops

Free credits for new international print shops

Right now, there are over 200 Paperight-member print shops around South Africa. They’ve sold thousands of books. We’d love to see Paperight print shops in other countries, too. Twenty d…

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On @pubperspectives, I say some sobering things about South African publishing, and hopeful things about @BookDash. publishingperspectives.com/2…
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The #MoreBooks campaign is hotting up. Follow along at fb.com/morebks #noto1textbook
Image from Arthur Attwell (@arthurattwell)
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Book Dash@bookdash3 Nov 2014
We want to give thousands of free books away to kids who have none. But we need your help! Join us: youtube.com/watch?v=xxZe_rjT…
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SCRAP VAT! Pricey textbooks are a solvable facet of tertiary funding crisis bit.ly/1sfBg63 by @BonganiNkosi87 @HESA_ORG @paperight
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Are you at #FBF14? Come visit us at 8.0 O24 to talk about POD and photocopy licensing for your titles.
Please add your voice and help stop govt prescribing the same one textbook for every South African child ow.ly/ChwZg
Sign the Petition

Sign the Petition

Don't prescribe only one textbook for every South African child

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Varsity book-price crisis: “There’s a chain reaction: you don’t have textbooks, you fail…the university excludes you” ow.ly/CeITj
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On SA startups going global: 7 case studies you can learn from ift.tt/1vg6Eky Jacques Coetzee: staff reporter
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A great innovation in distribution is @paperight, who use copy shops to deliver texts to more remote communities #indpub14
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