Venezuela Strangles Book Imports, Bankrupting Bookstores and Publishers | Publishing Perspectives
August 26 2009, 5:40pm
Via: http://publishingperspectives.com/?p=4555
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Sige, ituloy nyo lang yang #bookblockade na yan... First, with financial help from Cuba, the government set up new national publishers and booksellers, which have printed thousands of books to fill the void, reportedly without clearing the rights to many of the titles that are still under copyright. These books include a number of classic works, biographies of political revolutionaries, and monographs written by Chávez and other members of his socialist administration.









