World Book Capital bid - Angus Phillips interviewed

Oxford is bidding to become World Book Capital in 2014. This an annual award granted by UNESCO which acknowledges the best year-long programme proposed by a city to promote books and foster reading. Oxford’s bid is for the year from April 2014 to April 2015, but the winner of this bid will be announced in 2012. Oxford has unparalleled resources and a world-renowned economy in place to support a programme of this kind. There are probably more major culturally diverse authors based in or around Oxford than in any comparable city in the world. The International Publishers Association, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and the International Booksellers Federation all participate in the award selection, which has no financial prize.

One of the partners involved in the bid is Oxford Brookes University, and Angus Phillips, Director of the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, has been interviewed about the bid:

http://oxfordworldbookcapital.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/interview-series-angus-phillips/

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