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All book readers that have doubts about whether book reading still makes sense and anyone professionally involved with struggling readers (i.e., teachers and librarians); also young parents who need motivation to regularly read books to their children.
Pick up a Book to Pick Yourself Up is a mass market book
· Although based on the latest scholarly research, the author discusses the meaning of book reading in a journalistic narrative enhanced with graphics in a way that makes the book comprehensible to non-specialists.
· The book’s main point is that in an abundance of digital recreational and informational content in text, audio and video format, readily available to any smartphone user, the nature and perception of book reading has changed as well.
· The author shows that besides enjoying the content, book readers benefit from a set of “positive externalities” of long-form reading that are not present when using screen media.
· These positive side effects represent an important counterweight to some of the negative effects of social media and as such a allow more balanced and productive use of screen content, thus making the book an important member of the quickly growing media family. The author discusses these positive effects of book reading in ten short illustrated chapters.
156 pages / 200 photos, illustrations and tables / format 14 x 20 cm
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Miha Kovač is a professor at the Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies at the University of Ljubljana. During the publishing part of his career, he worked as an editorial director in two of the largest Slovene publishing houses and as an editorial director of the Slovene edition of National Geographic Magazine. His main research interests are publishing and reading statistics, diversity in European book production, bestsellers in Europe and reading research.
From 2012 to 2016, he was in charge of the Research and Development Group at Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House, which is developing digital learning tools for primary and secondary education in Slovenia. From 2015 to 2019, he was a dissemination officer at the COST E-READ network.
He is the author of more than fifty articles and four books in Slovene, Croatian and English on reading and book publishing.
Mladinska knjiga Založba d.d.
MLADINSKA KNJIGA PUBLISHING HOUSE When it comes to publishing in Slovenia, Mladinska knjiga is a household name. For more than 70 years we have successfully maintained the status of the largest publishing house in Slovenia with extensive fiction and nonfiction lists for all generations as well as magazines for children and teenagers. We take pride in achieving the highest standards of quality at all levels. Special attention is devoted to picture books. Renowned award-winning authors and illustrators and the highest quality content and design - these are only some of the reasons why our picture books appeal to readers and publishers all over the world. To find out more about what we have to offer, you are warmly invited to visit our website at www.mladinska.com/publishing. CANKARJEVA ZALOŽBA PUBLISHING HOUSE Established in 1947, Cankarjeva založba is one of the largest and most prolific publishing houses in Slovenia, publishing around fifty titles a year. In September 2004 Cankarjeva založba became part of Mladinska knjiga Publishing House Group. Cankarjeva založba’s publishing programme offers works from various fields, for example, drama, poetry, children and youth literature, travel writing, language handbooks, and monographic publications, all the while putting great focus on Slovene authors.
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- Publisher MLADINSKA KNJIGA ZALOŽBA
- Orginal LanguageSlovenian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789610159650
- Publication Country or regionSlovenia
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleBEREM, DA SE POBEREM
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