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What
users have said
 59%
list core textbooks as their top priority
 78%
say international textbooks are their main core source
 78%
say other textbooks are too expensive for students to afford
52%
say institutional budgets are insufficient for purchasing needs
65%
of African responses say access to textbooks is either unsatisfactory
or non-existent
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The majority of students at our medical school are highly intelligent
but come from poor backgrounds, so they find the basic cost of course
textbooks unaffordable. We are now very fortunate that BookPower provides
high quality, affordable textbooks for tertiary students at prices
that they can afford. This goes a long way in maintaining the quality
of education" (Dr Peter Mwaba, Head, Dept. of Medicine, University
of Zambia) |
| "Low-priced
textbooks enable undergraduate students to access essential learning
information resources, so contribute to a large extent to the attainment
of quality university education. They enable more than 40% of our
students who are privately sponsored and pay full fees to purchase
the required textbooks for their courses: these students do not receive
any grants to buy textbooks but may afford BookPower editions. The
university library can afford to buy more copies of low-priced editions
and hence enable more readers to access the textbooks." ( Professor
D. K. Some, Vice Chancellor, Moi University, Kenya) |
| "The
BookPower scheme seems to be part of the solution to our endemic book
shortages in our libraries." (Zambia) |
"Textbooks
must be priced low and affordable. Presently, use of computers is
non-affordable" (India) |
| "Prices
of textbooks are too high for the majority of students or even subject
specialists working in academic institutions. The majority of undergraduate
students have no access to electronic media" (Tanzania) |
| "The
library budget does not allow updating of textbooks in the book banks"
(Uganda) |
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"For courses conducted
for a large number of students the library cannot afford to have enough
copies. Hence, low-priced editions are extremely helpful" (Sri
Lanka) |
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Users:: please let us know how useful you have found our
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Academic
Staff and Librarians:: we welcome your suggestion of additional
titles. We will discuss the most-requested with our academic advisers
and carefully consider adding them to the scheme.
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