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Publishing houses told to print in Argentina while imported books are blocked in Customs
Argentina's booksellers claim over a million imported books remain stacked up in customs while the government of President Cristina Fernandez moves ahead with its policy of substituting imports and defending local jobs and the domestic market. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesProtectionism ! A game the whole world can play :-)
Oct 01st, 2011 - 03:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is not only protectionism, but it is another way of controlling what the people are allowed to read; especially if it might be anti-K ideas.
Oct 01st, 2011 - 06:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is why I bring so many books for my Argentine friends. They cannot get the books they need to study for their degree in their own country. Luckily they have a generous English friend who can help them.
Oct 01st, 2011 - 08:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0the decision is true if the books are school Economy books ...!!
Oct 01st, 2011 - 09:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0The usual Clarin anti CFK nonsense that suits MI5 sheets like this.The facts are in the first eigth months of 2011 Argentine imports are up a whopping 38% another sign of a booming economy and hardly an indicator of a government curbing trade in books or anything else
Oct 01st, 2011 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0If the books can be printed in Argentina giving jobs to OUR people... what else can we say
Oct 01st, 2011 - 10:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0The point is the books are not available now. Why give students a reading list of unavailable books? They find it utterly frustrating. That and the fact that their teachers are always striking.
Oct 01st, 2011 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you want to manufacture the books in Argentina, fine, but it will be too late for the current students.
(7)ElaineB
Oct 01st, 2011 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ohhhhhh.............................
Poor modern Argentinean students.....
They can't get those expensive imported hard cover text-books at the moment.
Utterly frustrating….. but.......................................Wait a minute!
What did we do in my time?
Ohhhh yes…... those good old mimeographs......
And later…….. those big, ugly photocopying machines....
And now…...... those small, cheap and practical scanners....
Not to mention the Internet with its millions of more or less copyrighted download possibilities for ANY student, rich or poor.
Climb down of your Ivory Tower girl....
You don't meet the real South-America at British Airways business class....
Fortunately, you don't meet them in the Falklands either :-)
Oct 01st, 2011 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brasil should rapidly expand its publishing houses' output.
Oct 01st, 2011 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There is no Argentinean protectionist 60 day (=1 year) border holdup on books.
Great opportunity.
Another topic, but I am aghast at the low level of reading and book purchase across the Continent in general.
I know it is a cultural thing, but it points up a major weakness in the process of Development.
@ 10 Geoff, you know that these countries will always be developing countries, until someone theaches people how to stop crying over the past.
Oct 01st, 2011 - 07:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 07 tell us Elaine what are the names of these unavailable books.i find this most unlikely to say the least so tell us the books you are talking about
Oct 01st, 2011 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(10) Geoff Ward
Oct 02nd, 2011 - 02:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0You say:
“I am aghast at the low level of reading and book purchase across the Continent in general. I know it is a cultural thing, but it points up a major weakness in the process of Development.”
I say:
And why do you “Think” we are telling publishing houses to print in Argentina?
Published books are a clear indicator of a country's standard of living, education, and self-awareness.
i know merely unique book /novel “” Idiot “”/1869 was
Oct 02nd, 2011 - 09:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0written by Fyodor Dostoyevski in human history
the rest all kinds of books are junk.......
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i understand /appreciate of Argentina's attention/seriousness
becouse that
some imported books could contain some secret intelligence messages
for somebodies in the country...as like which made during 1970 .th terror years....and i know similair operations were made , before
Lebanon Civil War (1970. th years) as ,from some American Lecture
Books distribution center in Lebanon.....!!
It may be that South America can 'jump technology' and read and learn through Kindle.
Oct 02nd, 2011 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps Tierra del Fuego could assemble the hardware.
Billions of books imported by millions of people across borders with no protectionist 60 day (1 year) delays, and no import charges.
Think of just how much this could change peoples' perceptions of world affairs - just by allowing the easy exposure to alternative propositions.
Positively anarchistic! . . . . and definitely to be stamped on by weak and insecure authoritarian regimes.
In Memoriam….Michael Stern Hart (1947-2011)
Oct 02nd, 2011 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress,therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”
http://www.gutenberg.org/
My God!
Oct 02nd, 2011 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I never realised there was SO much potential for progress in Argentina!
And, as long as they don't have to deal with the rest of the world, they can evolve within the studied unreasonableness of 'internal progress'.
;-)
13 Think
Oct 03rd, 2011 - 12:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is nuts. Publishing and printing are not the same thing.
Just lifting a couple of books off the pile on my desk......Conservation Biogeography....ooh look, printed and bound in...Malaysia. Geographical Information Systems.....well look at that...all the way from Spain. Published in the UK, printed wherever makes economic sense.
As for Kindle, it will give you the world's great literature for free, printed nowhere. Are you really saying this doesn't add anything to education and self awareness?
(18) Monty96
Oct 03rd, 2011 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say:
“Publishing and printing are not the same thing.”
I say:
Don't say!
Our objective is published, printed and bound in Argentina.
If it doesn't make “economic sense”..... well..... then we must teach the economy some sense............
You say:
”Are you really saying this (E-Books / Kindle) doesn't add anything to education and self awareness?”
I say:
Make an effort to understand my post (16) instead of always trying to misinterpret me.
“In honor of the thinking man that invented the eBook.”
“Greatest publishing instrument since Gutenberg's press.”
It's more than two years since my last pBook..............................
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