BOOKS THAT SELLS TODAY Vs PERSONNEL That Gets Hired

By Paula.O.M.OTUKILE

Gaborone, Botswana.

Self-publishing has come with a lot of book publishing in a wide variety in a short period of time. It is not amazing to see an author of 50 books in a three year period.

However the issue goes to quality educational material versus grammatical errors, poor editing, poor language use and low quality printing materials.

Many know the process of publishing but few got enough resources to higher experienced personnel and quality machines.

Some books in a short period after few hands exchange them they lose total quality and become like poor toilet roll material bend and lose color fast.

However few individuals have great proofread, exact quality grammar, and eloquent flowing fluent piece of a reading.

Marketing also plays an important part, a poorly printed book can get great sales and awards if it fell on good well connected, marketing guru.

Technology enhances a lot of things such that it’s rare to tell for a lame man what a great book is to a poor or an average book.

Multitudes of young African authors’ writes and published books but few can feed themselves with this craft.

The system also is tight and few crack into curriculum to sell their books or even supply small groups of people or companies.

However no matter how zero sales are becoming a norm, more writers are born daily.

This phenomenon is found in careers too, there are less marketable courses in Africa yet more studies shows that various faculties continues to admit more students in these courses although the past thousands of graduates are roaming the streets without employment or sources of income.

Issue of financial literacy and learning to employ and make businesses opportunities plays a role too, that graduates should be groomed not to go be employed but to have broad scope of how to make income and employment opportunities.

Nursing, care giving or health care in general came in handy during Covid-19 scourge and has proved to be a very important career that gives instant employment opportunities and humanities courses continue to lag behind in terms of employment opportunities.

The encouragement to the younger generation to cast the net where fishes are is vital in Africa when career counseling arrives!