On reading vs buying books

People do read in South Africa. The problem is that they do not buy books. Let me rephrase. They do not buy books by South African authors as much as they are buying literature by authors from the West and US of America. This is very unfortunate. I don’t think the problem is about books being expensive either. Honestly, I don’t think books are expensive like many people think. People just have other preferences. Except for John van der Ruit (author of the successful series “Spud”, ed.), I don’t know of any South African author who has sold more than...