Sunday Times — Bringing Jozi to book: inner city literature trade is booming

 

                   

The Sunday Times went into the CBD to report on the boom in the inner-city book trade — the pavement stalls, back-room shops and unexpected corners where Johannesburg actually buys its books. The piece opens in a CBD fashion store where, as the paper put it, books compete for space with handbags, coats and high heels, religious texts stacked along the bottom shelves.


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