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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…

blog.paperight.com
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Final chapter for award-winning SA publishing startup Paperight wp.me/p3AMiX-cSP
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South African’s Paperight wants to make book printing international wp.me/p3AMiX-ckG
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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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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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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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Hypertext@htxtafrica8 Sep 2014
SA’s @Paperight fights for the right to copy books: htxt.co.za/2014/08/26/sas-pa… #WorldLiteracyDay
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Pearson's investing in South African education startups to "scale their businesses to make a positive impact". Apply: vilcap.com/portfolio/edupren…
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@Paperight turns any business with a computer and internet into a print-on-demand bookstore. Learn more on CEI at ow.ly/zgVDh
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US ebook vs paper quarterly sales: what's interesting? Paper grew faster than ebooks. ow.ly/zh6Lt
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WDC2014@WDC201427 Jun 2014
#WDC227: @paperight's inaugural @bookdash is set for Saturday 28 June 2014! For more information, visit on.fb.me/1nGWMKB
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