Download PDFs and making them into books is extremely profitable business. Some engineering and medical books costs Ksh 12,000 kwa retail yet you can download them and Laser Print + Bind them at Ksh 1,500 per book, sell the book at 6K, Profit 4.5K per book.
You’re on to something here…
Question. What about piracy laws huku vumbistan??
What hands do you have to grease, can you do it openly, as in kufungua duka? Would novels and books give such margins?
Chanua villagers.
You go to colles such as KMTC and talk to the students, then you do your research and get the ISBN number then you go online to search for the pdf
What makes you think they(students) cant do that on their own?You must have access to something they dont otherwise that would be an exercise in futility.
Ever bought a new popular book from the streets? Like those Kiyosaki & other motivational books? Most if not all new books on the street on paperback are from PDF downloads. Not because I’ve ever done that biz but because I know a PDF site with books and the kind of spacing in those PDF downloads is similar to spacing/errors in the bend down bookshops in town.
Very profitable, that’s why govt is trying to ban PDFs
Problem is Kenyans Don’t read books.
What kind of lunatics would we need in a government to try and ban PDFs?
Why should they buy your book at 6k while they can photocopy the book at 1bob or less.
Photocopy 800.
Binding 100
Total 900
assuming the book has 800pages
I read books
Umbwa profiting off the intellectual property of others
What you are suggesting is called corruption. Wizi.
Copyright infringement. There’s no difference between you and Ruto. These are the sort of bonobo activities that keep the black man down.
Piracy destroys innovation and creativity.
Halafu aitane bonobo.
we ondoka baze ya jaba bana.
Nikuwachiwa tutawachiwa hii ufala naona hapa, ati copyright infringements.
Book piracy ni wizi wa kawaida just like any other incedent of theft by .ke leaders and citizens
That’s a lie told by a few book shop owners to deter the competition.
If they didn’t how come we bookshops that have remained profitable forever?
How do you enforce such a law?:rolleyes::rolleyes:
Secondly they’re so many no longer in print books but available for free online , would they ban those too?
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Absolutely such bonobo practices continues to kill the African literature space. African writers produce marvellous work they get famous but remain poor. In the end the writer simply does not get the return on investment for both his time and labour and is forced to move to other industries mainly farming with the meagre earnings they managed to get for a book they worked on minimum a year. This is how you literally kill a writer. The cycle continues with new upcoming writers who suffer the same fate. It’s a shitty state of affairs. Buy your books from a trusted bookshop especially these that are written by local writers.
as someone who has been in book buisness authorities focus more on local books and those used by the MoEducation hizo ukiguza unakuwaga ready for anything…they are most profitable because they are in demand bit the motivational books and the rest of the kosokosos you can print but unless uko na bookshop uptown most folks cant afford to part with 6k for a book heri wasome soft copy printing out some pages they want to focus on.