The Kenya Publishers Association (KPA) has raised concern over the high number of counterfeit textbooks being sold to schools and parents by unscrupulous industry players.
KPA vice chairman Simeon Sossion says that such dishonest traders were a threat to the more than Sh30 billion publishing industry in the country.
Speaking to journalists in Nakuru Town on Tuesday, Sossion noted that the publishing industry has suffered huge losses due to pirating of most primary and secondary text books in major towns in the country.
"We as publishers are counting huge losses due to increased counterfeits. Our sales volumes have gone down and most of our text books are just lying in warehouses," Sossion said.
He said that the traders were using advanced technology to print the counterfeits and flood them in the market.
"I call upon the Anti-Counterfeit Agency (ACA) to rein in on these rogue players to bring sanity in the industry. It would also be wise to devolve the ACA to the counties where more of these pirating activities are taking place,"he added.