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Central News Agency or Consolidated News Agencies, better known simply as CNA, is a South African retail chain of stationery and book stores. History Founded in 1896 to sell newspapers in Johannesburg by using newspaper delivery boys on foot and bicycles, CNA initially focused on selling The Star, The Standard and the Diggers News newspapers. A breakthrough for the company came in 1902 when The Argus and the Cape Times newspapers granted a contract to the company to publish all of their newspapers. By 1904 the company had stores across South Africa and continued to expand to meet demand for news during World War I. The company was floated on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1903 to raise £120,000 (equivalent to £129,500,000 in 2017 based on its economic share). By 1928 the company was publishing most of South Africa's newspapers. Shortly after World War II the company expanded by opening outlets in Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe). In 1983 CNA merged with Gallo Africa to form CNA Gallo. The company acquired South African cinema chain Nu Metro in 1990 and proceeded to fully buy it out in 1992. By 1995 the company had 350 stores across South Africa. The company was acquired by Wooltru in 1995 for R500 million. A difficult retail market for stationery and books in the mid to late 1990s and internal restructuring put the company under financial pressure. This led to it and its remaining 130 outlets being sold to Edcon in 2002 for R130 million. References . Discover the Edcon Publishing Group popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Edcon Publishing Group books.
Best Seller Edcon Publishing Group Books of 2024
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark TwainHuck is the son of the town's vagrant drunkard, "Pap" Finn. Sleeping on doorsteps when the weather is fair, in empty hogsheads during storms, and living off of what he receives fro...
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Epaminondas
Edcon Publishing GroupEpaminondas is a short slightly humorous story about a boy who as his mother tells him does't seem to have the sense he was born with. Even the most mundane tasks are bungled in ...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar WildeA handsome young man, Dorian Gray wishes that his portrait rather he would age. The wish is fulfilled and Dorian pursues hedonistic pleasures. After each of his questionable immora...
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules VerneA professor, his nephew and a guide travel down a lava tube in Iceland and encounter prehistoric animals during their dangerous adventure. They eventually reemerge from the Italian...
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White Fang
Richard D. FerrieThis classic novel has been abridged and adapted into 10 exceptionally well illustrated chapters and enhanced with complete wordforword audio narration and back ground composition ...
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The Fisherman and His Wife
The Imperial PlayersOne day a fisherman caught a golden fish. Amazingly, the fish talked and asked to be put back in the water and in return the fish would grant him a wish. He could not think of anyt...
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The Little Red Hen
The Imperial PlayersThis story is about a little red hen who is willing to do much work and reap the rewards while the other farmyard animals seem less inlined to work hard. This is a simple, fun tale...
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From the Earth to the Moon
Jules VerneThe members of a club decide to raise money and build a projectile that can land on the moon. Three people climb into the rocket and proceed to the moon. This is an easy to read ab...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules VerneThree people set out to research a large unknown sea animal that turns out to be an advanced submarine roaming the ocean. The three find the creature which is a vessel and are take...
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The Three Little Pigs
Edcon Publishing Group & Joseph JacobsThis is a children's fairy tale about three little pigs and a bad wolf. This enhanced version includes a word for word audio narration with exciting sound effects.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles DickensThe French revolution is the setting for this fictional tale of lives of certain people living between London and Paris during that era. This is an easy to read abridged (shortened...
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David Copperfield
Charles DickensDavid Copperfield or Trotwood Copperfield as his Aunt Betsey referred to him shares a look into his life, family and romance as it occurs throughout his life. Discussion is g...
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas WigginThis classic novel has been adapted into 10 illustrated chapters featuring young Rebecca who moves to live with her aunt to improve her future opportunities in life. Kind and creat...
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Heidi
Johanna SpyriThis classic novel has been adapted into 10 illustrated chapters. The easytoread text effectively improves reading skills when the original version may be too long or difficult. Th...
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Jungle Book
Rudyard KiplingThis classic novel has been adapted into 10 illustrated chapters. The easytoread text effectively improve reading skills where the original version may be too long or difficult for...
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The Pathfinder
James Fenimore CooperAn experienced man known as the Pathfinder helps others traverse dangerous territory on land and through the “inland sea” that is also known as Lake Ontario. This is an easy to rea...
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The Story of White Satin
Edcon Publishing GroupA pony named White Satin loved to pull a farmer's daughter in a carriage. One day the farmer showed up with a automobile and White Satin became so jealous that he ran away and got ...
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Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David WyssThis classic novel about a family that survives a shipwreck and manages to get by on an island has been carefully adapted into 10 illustrated chapters. The easy to read version eff...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre DumasA merchant sailor is falsely imprisoned but once freed is able to acquire a treasure and buy the island of Monte Cristo as well as the title Count. He secretly helps a family that ...
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Rapunzel
The Imperial PlayersA husband and wife lived next door to a witch whom grew a vegetable known as rampion. The wife wanted the rampion very badly so the husband climbed over the wall to fetch some. Whe...
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The Call of the Wild
Jack LondonThis classic novel has been adapted into 10 illustrated chapters. The easytoread text effectively improve reading skills where the original version may be too long or difficult for...
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel DefoeCrusoe, a dog and two cats survive a shipwreck and find themselves on a small island. He adapts to his new surroundings with creativity and perseverance. Several years pass and he ...
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The Man Without a Country
Edward Everett HaleThis classic novel has been adapted into 10 illustrated chapters. The easytoread text effectively improve reading skills where the original version may be too long or difficult for...
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A Christmas Carol
Charles DickensThis classic novel has been adapted into 10 illustrated chapters. The easytoread text is designed to effectively improve reading skills when the original version is too long or dif...
