Books everywhere but ...

Is it just me or is everyone suddenly into books?
We have Kwani? - flush with cash but mean as hell, never mind that is more of a clique of I-know-you-you-know-me-the-rest-are-idiots-let's-write fellas; Storymoja - still can't figure out how to describe Muthoni Garland's outfit past the word 'awesome' ... and dozens of other book related events like the recent book signing at Nakumatt Junction where about 7 authors featured.
Oh, and just today read of this couple that is offering an e-bookshop - you order your book online and pay via m-pesa then the book is delivered to you.
I'm aware Books First has such a service too. Midiwo's sister's Legacy bookshop at Yaya Centre and Sarit Centre has such a service too, I mean online purchase. Legacy is not your common kind of bookshop though - it mostly caters for NGOs and 'development' minded individuals.
Still on my rant about this outbreak of books, I must salute Nairobi Star - now known simply as The Star - for their pioneering way of marketing books. Every day they would offer a free book to a lucky reader. All the reader had to do was to write to them and say whta section of the paper they liked ... and they would get a book.
The Star also deserves praise for their relentless marketing of Michela Wrong's It's Our Turn to Eat, a book that no bookshop would touch for fear of being sued by our untouchable billionaire-shilling thieves. The book wouldn't stand much scrutiny, really. I mean, it's more of John Githongo and his sneaky ways at a Kikuyucentric State House than anything else.
Every other day a book is being launched or serialised somewhere in Kenya. Every hour, someone is blogging about a book or an editor is assessing a manuscript or some politician is engaging a writer for a biography ...
It's a books galore people. Don't be left behind.