Can we consider books as mass media in Morocco?

Idriss BEKOUCHI
COM 1302-01
Dr. IBAHRINE Mohammed

Can we consider books as mass media in Morocco?
In order to respond to this question, I will first give a brief definition of what is the mass media which is used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience. In Morocco, which is still a country in the development phase and which contains a huge number of illiterate people, books are not very often used by the local population since Moroccans and namely those who studied in Moroccan schools, which consists the majority of the population, did not get used to read books in their free time, However, they only read books if they are assigned by their instructors. This way of using books by the majority of Moroccans do not allow books in Morocco to be considered as a kind of mass media since, there is only a minority of people who did use books for this purpose. To sum up we cannot consider books as mass media in Morocco since it reaches just the minority of the population, on the other hand, mass media is used to reach a very large audience, and this is why books are not considered as a kind of mass media in Morocco.