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Number of textbooks purchased by government guarantees lower prices and market heat

01/17/2013

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Alex Rodrigues
Brazil Agency Reporter



Brasilia - The father of a student of a private school to adopt the book Children and Youth Memories of Emilia Monteiro Lobato, will spend, on average, R$ 22 to buy it. By the same book, of the 249 titles selected by the National Library of the School, which every year distributes thousands of literary works to the public schools, the federal government pays the publisher R$ 5.10. Even so, sales to the federal government represent a competitive market, as says the president of the National Union of Editors of Books, Sonia Machado Jardim.

The savings achieved in each copy allows the National Fund for Education (ENDF) free buy and distribute about 140 million textbooks, literary and scientific-technical students to more than 150 000 public schools of basic education in the country. This savings is achieved depending on the volume of government purchases. Only the book cited, for instance, have been purchased over 55 thousand copies. For comparison, the best-selling current Editora Record, which Sonia is vice president, sold around 80,000 copies already added the five editions published.

"Sales to governments are very important to publishers. A rapid, hard to say which represent about 28% of the sales of the book industry. Mainly sales to the federal government, whose programs Textbook and School Library have had a continuity that allows us programarmos. At the state government level, the programs do not always [books] are maintained, "said Sonia. She revealed that the publishers are concerned with the reduction of the amounts allocated to the School Library. According to information from the site FNDE, while in 2012 we invested R$ 81 million for this year year estimate is R$ 66 million.

"There are many publishers today geared to meet this market. Hence the concern with the numbers 2013. You need to consider the extent to which publishers may keep prices currently charged to the government if the number of copies is being reduced," concluded Sonia. According to the general coordinator of the Program Book FNDE, Sonia Schawartz Coelho, the reduction in value does not mean that the total number of books purchased has decreased, as may be the result of negotiation with publishers.

At the other end, the mother of two former public school students who have completed college - one of them attended the University of Brasilia (UNB), one of the busiest in the country-the housewife Maria das Neves de Araújo Alves considers "important" today granted the benefit of his granddaughter eight years, Leticia de Araujo Alves, a student of a public school in the Federal District.

"For me, [ensure] education and health should be the main concerns of governments. Do not know if they are really worried or distribute books and stuff just to say they are doing something," he said. To her, the fact that granddaughter receive textbooks "now makes it much easier." She defended public education.

"We would not have to pay a private school, but I think the most important is the interest, the will [to study] of each. My two children have studied all my life in public school and, thank God, both managed to enter
in good colleges. "

Edition: Tereza Barbosa

Source: Agency Brazil

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