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The #textbookrevolution hits UCT!

As the third week of Paperight’s #textbookrevolution draws to a close, we have a lot to be proud of, and a lot of people to thank. All in all, we managed to gather over 400 signatures from...

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The #textbookrevolution hits Twitter!

  “Twitter” by Flickr user Andreas Eldh. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Licence Over the first two weeks of March 2014, Paperight hosted two LIVE Twitter debates for students, publishers,...

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Talented, young designers showcased in our cover art competition

As this year’s World Design Capital, Cape Town has been painted yellow. Designers and creatives around the city have been showcasing their transformative design work. As a WDC-aligned project, we...

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200 top South African books hit Paperight

When I set out to build Paperight, I imagined having best-selling, new South African fiction and non-fiction in our library, so that South Africans everywhere could get their hands on it. Even though...

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Paperight welcomes Open Book Publishers

Open Book Publishers are reinventing academic publishing, making it fairer, faster and more accessible. Their ideals are our ideals, so we’re thrilled to be working with them. You can now get their...

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Matrics: get exam practice more cheaply, more easily

If you’re in matric, or have a child in matric, you’re getting nervous about exams. We’d like to help: 1. Zero licence fees on past-exam packs. This means Paperight outlets can now print and sell past...

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Updating our publisher and outlet agreements

In a short while, we’ll be rolling out a major new addition to our service: the ability to get a licence to make a legal photocopy of a book. We’ll say lots more later about why that’s a huge step for...

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Instant photocopy-licensing: an important step for publishing

This week, we’re adding a new service to Paperight: we want to make it really fast and easy for anyone to make a legal photocopy of a book. Why is that important? Every single day, in thousands of...

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Free credits for new international print shops

Right now, there are over 200 Paperight-member print shops around South Africa. They’ve sold thousands of books. We’d love to see Paperight print shops in other countries, too. Twenty dollars in free...

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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...

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