{"id":6138,"date":"2015-02-20T09:05:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2015-02-20T09:05:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:05:32","slug":"black-market-for-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6138","title":{"rendered":"Black Market for Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Mauritania, where 60 percent of the country is under age 25, school books are hard to find. Added to what distribution issues publishers may have, thieves are taking books to sell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al-fanarmedia.org\/2015\/02\/mauritania-black-market-books-plagues-education\/\">on the black market<\/a>. Where a book should cost under $1 at a legal bookseller, on the black market it will be sell for $10. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aldada Weld El-Salem, who is in his thirties, said he was lucky to find six schoolbooks for his daughter for a total of 20,000 Ouguiya ($68.81) on the black market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not want to risk the future of my daughter so I recently gave in to the prices of the dealers and I paid whatever they asked for,\u201d he said. \u201cI did not want my daughter to be a victim of the indifference of the official authorities toward a current crisis afflicting all of Mauritania\u2019s schools.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/201502b.htm#qc1\">The Literary Saloon<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mauritania, where 60 percent of the country is under age 25, school books are hard to find. Added to what distribution issues publishers may have, thieves are taking books to sell on the black market. Where a book should cost under $1 at a legal bookseller, on the black market it will be sell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Market for Textbooks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}