Publishers, booksellers to maintain prices of textbooks

On August 14 by publishers, booksellers and uniform producing factories alongside Mincommerce came to a compromise to not increase the prices of school stationery.

"Textbook is a social good, not a commodity..." revealed the Minister of trade, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana at a double ceremony which was held in the Conference Room of his Department. On one hand, it involved the presentation of the approved price of books and textbooks for the year 2014-2015.

On the other hand, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana co-signed with eight promoters of houses of clothing a memorandum of understanding on prices of school uniforms. On the eve of the season, the good news from these two events brought to light that prices of books, manuals and school uniforms will not increase.

In details, it was learned that 2,717 securities in the two subsystems francophone and Anglophone programmes, 99 per cent of the price of these books either remained stable or have ebbed. With school uniforms, the drop in prices is of the order from 200 to 300 F, by sex and size of the child.

Another strong decision by the Minister of trade is to ban the sale of all these assets within schools. On this, as many publishers, booksellers, agreed with their host to "sanctify school establishments, which are temples of knowledge and non-market temples.