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has confiscated three shipping containers of 3,000 cartons of pirated books estimated at over N300 million in Rivers State.Asein said the containers were intercepted at Onne Port during an operation involving NCC enforcement partners, including the Nigeria Customs Service and the Department of State Services .

He said the copyright of the pirated books belongs to frontline Nigerian publishers: Africana First, Bounty Press, Evans, Learn Africa, Macmillan, Metropolitan, and University Press Plc.“Our main headache used to be with locally printed books which are easy to identify due to their poor production quality. But we have since seen a surge in the importation of pirated books, especially from Asia with quality, competing with their originals.

 

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