Nigeria: Trade in Secondhand Magazines and Books is Flourishing

Open-spaced or outdoor bookshops with a large display of decades-old books, pamphlets and magazines and all such other materials, are a prominent feature of market places in cities and townships in Nigeria. They form a main feature of the state of readership and the general educational system mired in the increasingly sickening shortage of reading materials, aggravated by their heightening expensiveness, making most essential, sometimes compulsory, reading texts unaffordable. People resort to buying old or used texts from the open-spaced bookshops ,because they are sold there at a substantial discount on their recommended cover or conventional bookshop prices, and they sometimes obtain texts which are either disappearing or have even disappeared from the shelves in the prevailing educational and readership settings in the country.

MOre @ AllAfrica.com.

June 22, 2007 by Uncategorized 0

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