Disruptive innovations in emerging markets: Mxit, Siyavula, Paperight and Worldreader | Arthur Attwell | consumer psychology | Scoop.it

"...South Africa is like two different countries: about 2 million wealthy people who support the publishing industry (excluding schools publishing, where the state is the largest client by far), and about 48 million people who could never afford an ereader, don’t have credit cards to buy things online, or can’t afford to physically travel to a bookstore. So to make it possible for most people to read books, we need to totally rethink how we sell books. And that’s going to take some disruptive innovations..."