The price of school notebooks soars
If official schoolbooks will benefit from a subsidy in order to prevent its increase, school notebooks will undoubtedly cost more at the start of the 2022-2023 school year. “The 24-page notebooks, for example, which were sold at 1.50 MAD apiece, will now be offered at 3 MAD apiece. The price of the 96-page one will go from 3 MAD to 6 MAD. The 384-page notebook whose price was 15 MAD will jump to 23 MAD. The increase is explained by the soaring price of paper and transport”, explains Mohamed Barni, bookseller in the city of Salé and member of the Moroccan Association of Booksellers. Asked by L’Economiste, Tariq Lallouch, president of the Moroccan Group of Printers (GMI), confirms “the soaring prices, given the price of paper, especially since the price of the notebook is free”.
