And here I am surrounded by my collateral, open on time. I admit I was not mowed down by roaring hoards. The most misleading statistic I can offer is I sold a book to 30 per cent of people who came into the shop - I know this kind of statistic from working with donors. The truth was there were only ten customers in the shop in two hours. So, Planet Books Lusaka is hardly Waterstones, London. Never mind.
In blinding hindsight, something too many suffer from, Women's Day ensured press release failure in all papers, despite World Book Day, which only Luchi at Phoenix Radio had recognised, and the holiday on Friday ensured most moneyed Zambians had decamped to rural family homes.
While I am here, I do have a comment about pictures generally. Personally, I am impressed by big pictures, and the pictures you can see above are A0, 1189 by 841 mm. It seemed to me, people avoided looking at them. Some say that the public suffer from advertising overload from hoarding boards. This is a pity, their homes must be horribly bleak. There was a stunning statistic the other day, 62 (? correct me) per cent of degree holders never read another book after leaving university. I suppose the only colour in their lives is the television, which represents a simulacrum of mostly nonsense.
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