Our Transformational
Journey – Analogue to Digital
Medi Publishing Consultancy is an evolving and dynamic publishing house. Conceived in 2003 in a family study room in Phakalane, Gaborone as Mowana Publishing House, the Consultancy was born and registered in 2005 as Medi Roots Publishing Consultancy, parented by Clear-cut Investments Pty Ltd. At conception, the big dream was to build a robust, local, traditional publishing house to focus on publishing all genres in local languages, as well as Setswana textbooks. During that conceptual stage, we developed six Setswana readers to set the stage, before moving on to other languages.
In about a year, we had to face and accept the reality that the reading market for Setswana, let alone other local languages, is too small to grow and sustain our business. In subsequent years, we focused on publishing educational books across all subjects and levels of education. We enjoyed a successful but short-lived breakthrough until the 2008 economic downturn disrupted all markets across the world. Since then, there has been a decline in sales as government purchasing power got weaker and weaker.
During all this turmoil, we continued to publish some Setswana books which have remained our best selling products to date. In 2012, we’re-aligned with our vision and published a historic monolingual Setswana Dictionary for the Southern African Region, ‘Tlhalosi ya Medi ya Setswana’. We have also produced other unique publications such as a biography and magazine as we continue to explore.
We Offer A Variety Of Contracts
- With some contracts, we maintain control over the publishing process. We distribute the book to the sales channels of our choice and undertake some of the marketing activities on behalf of the author.
- In others, we share the responsibilities, risk and benefits with our authors.
- While in some, we charge for our services and allow the author to self-publish and stay independent.
- In others, the author writes the book, pays for some or all of the book production costs and participates in marketing activities.
Reconstruction & Realignment: From Traditional To Hybrid Publishing
Over the 17years, Medi Publishing has evolved into a model that can now be described as a hybrid publishing house, offering more benefits to the author. We act more like partners, which is why hybrid publishing is sometimes called partnership publishing or contemporary publishing.
In hybrid publishing, both the risks and the rewards are more evenly shared between the publisher and the author. Through our model, we cater for both budding and published or seasoned authors. We even cater for self publishing authors.
As we re-shape, re-construct and re-align, we adopt the best qualities from traditional publishing and merge them with those of self-publishing. We see this as a balnced way to help authors get the success they are looking for more effectively, while offering the experience, expertise and influence of a seasoned publisher.
Digital Migration From Analogue To Digital
Our belief and conviction is that the once feared digital trends aren’t devaluing paper-based books and print, they are helping authors and publishers engage with the wider scope of modern-day readers and a new digitally attuned generation.
As we choose to embrace new ways to augment our traditional publishing model, we incorporate the 4IR technologies into our traditional publishing model. The 4IR affords us an opportunity to service a wider audience by making it possible to produce products and services that suit and meet the needs of our wide market segments.
While in the past we could only think of books in print form, today the scope has widened. We can produce books in a variety of forms including eBooks, audio, augmented reality books and more.
Our Values
Integrity
We take pride in maintaining our integrity even in turbulent times and thrive to complete on merit.
Energy & Excellence
We challenge ourselves to excel in all that we do, by stretching ourselves to move further from the norm and most importantly, we enjoy learning from our mistakes and creating new contexts within which to thrive..
Customer Oriented
We are committed to provide superior products and services at the highest level of quality and professionalism.
Our People
We treat our employees as individuals and we empower them to realize their full potential and we believe in open communication and share our success with everyone in the organization.
Innovation & Technology
We actively encourage a culture of innovation, which facilitates the development of new technologies and ensures a high quality product.
Partnerships
Our market is global and we believe in the power of partnership with our customers and suppliers to meet our common objectives.
Books
Moremogolo
Modern World History
Pherethego
Highlights
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