"This is an impressive and innovative study, and perhaps one of the most comprehensive sociological analyses of a literary system ever written. While the book is primarily devoted to an analysis and understanding of the novel in Nigeria, chapter 2:“The Nigerian Fiction Complex” (pp. 26-119), offers some interesting and fresh insights of the publishing business, author-publisher relations, the publishing careers of Nigerian writers, aspects of distribution and promotion of books, together with an extensive analysis of readership and reading culture: Who reads? How do they read? What do they read? What do they make of what they read? It draws on interviews with Nigerian writers, publishers, booksellers, readers, surveys, and a reading of almost 500 Nigerian novels, from lightweight popular fiction to acclaimed literary masterpieces." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1339)