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Currently in Nigeria we don’t know the best-selling book for 2017, its unacceptable.

  • Give us training, let’s see how other publishers across the globe are doing it.
  • And for us personally at OkadaBooks, we need people to understand that Nigeria is not a piracy center. A lot of publishers are not making as much money as they should be making.

    Growing up I never did well in English and was definitely the last person that anyone would think would get published. But if you guard everything, over protect everything, we counter ourselves.

    So in essence COPYRIGHT when applied too rigidly, indirectly kills that FREEDOM TO PUBLISH we push for.

    Where do you think publishing will be 5 years from now?

    I can only speak for Africa/Nigeria, We started this 5 years ago, and it has not changed much.

    Okechukwu Ofili's OkadaBooks is shutting down its bookshelves after a 10-year run. That you can actually make money in Nigeria and Africa if you follow the right methods. Powered by 24hubs

    • In his words, "As we bid farewell to OkadaBooks, we hope that you continue to explore the vast world of literature through other avenues.

    I don’t want to get in trouble. Because the motorcycles are nimble and small, they are able to weave between cars to get their passengers to their destination. And that even though I think of OkadaBooks as this hip app, the youths want something slightly different, and that something evolves overtime.

    OkadaBooks is shutting down its bookshelves after running for 10 years.

    Okechukwu Ofili,the company’s CEO, shared the sad news via a statement today, November 20, 2023, on social media platform X (formerly Twitter). 

    Citing rough macroeconomic conditions, the statement read, "After much consideration and reflection, we have come to a difficult decision.

    I say all that to say, that at IPA I felt that I was one of the youngest people in the room. Another analogy … I like to think that I am hip, but when I go to the club, I don’t know half of the dance steps or songs, if I was a DJ playing music, that club will go out of business. IPA can help Nigeria publishers by going past the layers fluff we like to put up and getting us to focus on what is key.

    Here’s how IPA can help:

    • Get publishers to talk to each other and share information with each other.
    • Help conduct surveys across Nigeria to allow publishers understand the habits and peculairties of their market. At OkadaBooks we believe there is a traffic jam in the African publishing industry and we much like the Okada’s are using mobile devices to weave thru the traffic and deliver books to people across the continent!

      At the IPA Regional Seminar in Lagos in April in 2018 you were direct – you said the speakers were too old, that you were too old!

      But via my blog ofilispeaks.com I was able to express myself without thinking about a book, and several years of expression later. Okechukwu, an engineering graduate turned author, founded the company in 2013 off his frustrations about not being able to sell his own self-published book in Nigeria.

       

      Okadabooks, solves that problem by creating a simple and transparent platform, that leverages on mobile technology, where authors can keep track of the number of copies sold of their books in real-time, and withdraw the money they’ve made without any hassles.

      But the same level of piracy in Nigeria has a bigger impact, because we have about 33 bookstores that major publishers trust and those 33 are smaller than the average sized American bookstore and we have no digital outlets to sell that is of the level of Amazon (hopefully OkadaBooks becomes that someday).

      okechukwu ofili biography of abraham

      Users can access the content either via web, or the Okadabooks app.

       

      Since launch, the company has seen an exponential rise in the number of authors publishing on the platform – and book lovers who come there to purchase books by their favourite Nigerian or African authors. They have single handedly revolutionalized movies and series and will likely kill off cable TV, and created a sort of FREEDOM in MOVIE MAKING.

      When we do this, we will see something different. In 5 years, we should be able to have best selling authors in Nigeria that are actually living in Nigeria, you should be able to write a book and become a bestseller in Nigeria, without signing a publishing deal.

    Five years later, the one-of-a-kind digital publishing and bookselling platform was selected for Google’s Launchpad Accelerator Africa.

    "Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa programme will provide a viable platform for mentorship and training as well as the technological idea for us.