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Underdevelopment and African Literature
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Series: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
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ISBN10: 1108713785
ISBN13: 9781108713788
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 28 2021
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781108713788
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 28 2021
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
People looking for works in cities are immersed in English as the lingua franca of the mobile phone and the urban hustle - more effective instigations to reading than decades of work by traditional publishers and development agencies. The legal publishing industry campaigns to convince people to scorn pirates and plagiarists as a criminal underclass, and to instead purchase copyrighted, barcoded works that have the look of legitimacy about them. They work with development industry officials to 'foster literacy' - meaning to grow the legal book trade as a contributor to national economic health, and police what and how the newly literate read. But harried cash-strapped audiences will read what and how they can, often outside of formal economies, and are increasingly turning to mobile phone platforms that sell texts at a fraction of the price of legally printed books.
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