Stakeholders Seek Restoration Of Traditional Book Chain To Address Distortions

Stakeholders in the country’s education system have stressed the need for those in the book industry to continue to work at the process of restoring the traditional book chain to address and fix the inter-sectoral distortions that exist today.

The communique was signed by Chairman of Planning Committee, Alhaji Lukman Dauda and the school’s director-general, Lawrence Omidiora.

The following issues were discussed at the event: “The book as agent of change in a rapidly changing world”, “A new business model for the book business” and “Between digital books and the reader, interrogating the viability in a developing nation”.

The lead speaker was Professor Pat Utomi, Founder, Centre for Value in Leadership while the panellists include: Dr. John Asein, the Director General of the Nigerian Copyright Commission; Cyril Anioke, President, Nigeria Publishers Association; Mr. Dare Oluwatuyi, Managing Director/CEO of CSS Publishers, Lagos and President, Nigeria Book sellers Association; Dr. Wale Okediran, General Secretary, Pan-African Writers Association; Mr. Asawo Ibufero, Managing Director, Cinfores Limited, Port-Harcourt; Dr. Adesola Falaiye, Managing Director, Afkar printing and publishers, Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos and representative of The Printers Institute, Lagos and Kolade Mosuro of The Bookseller, Ibadan, who was the moderator.

By The Nation

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