From: Richard Ali richardalijos@yahoo.com [josana] <josana-noreply@yahoogroups.co.uk>
Date: Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:56 PM
Subject: [josana] Richard Ali: My First Day In Frankfurt #FrankfurtBookFair #2014
To: "Ederi@yahoogroups.com" <Ederi@yahoogroups.com>
My post on the Parrésia blog.
"I made the case that distribution and marketing remain Parrésia's most formidable difficulties, for the problem of quality, both in terms of content and book aesthetics has been solved reasonably well. I also expressed the hope that, following a rejig of the company by the end of the year, the rise in e-commerce would solve the issue of distribution and that our partnership with our agents, WriteHouse of Ibadan, would lower our handling costs and thus free up more money for marketing. To the question of interference by the State in the form of censorship, I noted that, sadly, the Nigerian State has not cared to censor any book recently having taken care to arm citizens, over the last few decades, with an education that can only foster ignorance, not curiousity, definitely not a curiousity to read books or to open minds to inquiry. The most recent instance of interference, the attempted imposition of a new import duty regime, was done mostly out of policy recklessness and not a perverse, censorious intent. Such recklessness is, of course, a symptom of the education system."
HERE: http://t.co/qT1o696qJI
HERE: https://parresiablog.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/richard-ali-my-first-day-in-frankfurt-frankfurtbookfair-2014/
- Ra.
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