Publishers raise alarm over increasing piracy of books

Publishing houses in Kenya could be losing billions of shillings every year to hungry book pirates who collude with bookshops and some schools to maintain the illegal trade.

Mostly affected are publishers dealing with set books approved for use in public and private secondary schools as well as textbooks like English, Kiswahili and Mathematics which are a must-have in all primary and secondary schools right from the time a child sets their foot into Standard One.