Gappah imports own books to avoid overpricing

FRUSTRATED by the exorbitant retail pricing of books by local bookshops, award-winning author and international trade lawyer, Petinah Gappah, has decided to import books that she authored and are published outside the country and is now selling them locally at affordable prices.

Gappah told NewsDay that she was disappointed by the proposal by some bookshops to retail one of her books at $25, a price she said was ridiculous.

She said her first two books — An Elegy for Easterly and The Book of Memory — were distributed locally by Weaver Press since she was based in Geneva, Switzerland.

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