Welcome to BOOK Southern Africa!

BOOK Southern Africa is a literary news and social network for publishers, authors and the general book-buying and -reading public. BOOK SA reports on local fiction, non-fiction, poetry, biography, book happenings, reviews and more: you can start exploring now by clicking the links above.

BOOK SA is also a free author and publisher website* service for those involved in the world of Southern African literature. Our sites’ special features help drive information about books throughout the web, attracting new audiences and creating more space for literary endeavours. Our goal is to help build the Southern African literary marketplace to new heights.

Get an account! Join for free.

If you’re involved in SA literature, as an author, publisher or representative of a literary event, and want a free BOOK SA account, send us a note! You’ll soon be able to post your literary news in a flash, and BOOK SA’s technology will brighten every last corner of the web with it. BOOK SA accounts have all the bells and whistles. Some of our features:

• Homepage, blog and custom pages. These come standard with each BOOK SA account, and are easy to manage and customize.
• Photo integration with Facebook and Flickr. Illustrate your site with your Facebook photos, or choose an image from anywhere on Flickr .
• Instant posting. No backend login required to blog: do it straight from your BOOK SA homepage.
• Interactivity. Items you publish appear on our front page at book.co.za, where others can add to the discussion.
• Much more. BOOK SA is replete with “web 2.0″ features. New ones are always in the works!

If you already have a website, your BOOK SA account will complement it, presenting your information in a new way. If you don’t have one, but are involved in the burgeoning world of of SA letters, click here to start extending your reach.

* We provide free accounts to published authors of literary material, whose books have been released by established publishing houses. Self-published authors are considered on a case-by-case basis, as are publishers and literary events.