FrançaisConference : The contradictions of the globalisation of the publishing industry
Normative and distributive policy of Cameroon: an socio internationalist approach of the publishing industry game
Author/s : Abessolo Nguema Jean Roger
The socio internationalist approach defines the publishing industry game as ' functional complex ' and a ' relative space '. The analysis of result of linking up the regulation and 'distributive policy' of the publishing industry business shows the hardness to establish a policy on Cameroon's school book. The policy is a will to regulate the publishing industry affairs. It's guided by politics or by transactions and negotiatings. First, it must be noted that public law is the law of public order as much as the law of public office. It legitimately produces the norms and thus can create the condition either for an open or a 'closed' market. It's only in 1995, the constitution of the Public Contracts Regulatory Agency (P.C.R.A.). By the year 2000, the market book took off a wide expansion. The public economic law guides the policy of the publishing industry here. Secondly, through the regulation of the publishing industry game, the State offers legal possibilities to share the resources and attribute the different status. The main question is to know how the school book policy's of the publishing industry is constituted, applied and is getting transformed in Cameroon. Another issue is the possibility of a national control over this policy, assuming the contradictions between the sovereignity and the liberalist values. In 1999, the CEPER S.A. case did upset Cameroon 's political arena. In 2000, the Minister of State in charge of national education was sacked. That situation lead the CEPER S.A. to lose monopoly in favour of EDICEF- to represent French Group Hachette in Africa. That shows the publishing industry case comes with 'collusive' transactions between the governmental leadership, national and international business. Therefore, we use the institutional issue to cast the light on the thick 'configuration' of 'the globalisation of the publishing industry' in order to remake the consumer in middle of strategies and policies.
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