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Delhi Book Fair at Pragati Maidan (file photo). — Sushil Kumar Verma

Our Bureau

New Delhi, Aug. 26 Book lovers in the Capital would look for a mental feast as the eagerly sought annual event of Delhi Book Fair is in the offing, promising to roll out a variety of books for the discerning readers.

Announcing the 15th edition of the Delhi Book Fair, the India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) Chairman & Managing Director, Dr Subas Pani, said that the Fair is being organised in collaboration with Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) from August 29 to September 6 in the ITPO’s exhibition complex of Pragati Maidan.

He said the fair has attracted over 230 participants from India and abroad with the overseas participants coming from Abu Dhabi, China, Iran, Pakistan and the US. This year the theme of the fair is “Literature from North-East. A concurrent ITPO event the ‘Stationery Fair’ would be an added attraction for the visitors.

The Union Minister of State for Corporate Affairs & Minority Affairs, Mr Salman Khurshid, would inaugurate the fair.

Besides encouraging literacy and reading habit particularly among children and youth, the fair offers vast scope not only for short-term business transaction but also acts as a suitable platform for co-publishing agreements, translation copy rights and reprinting arrangements.

Dr Pani said the forthcoming fair is a testimony to the strength and resilience of the Indian publishing industry and the scale of its commercial activities.

He said the country has the unique distinction of publishing books in more than 24 languages with an annual turnover of Rs 100 billion. FIP representative said that the number of books published annually in the country is estimated at about 90,000.

Maximum books published are in Hindi at 25 per cent, followed by English language books at about 20 per cent. In a fair guide, the FIP argued that the government policy of opening the publishing field to foreign publishers was not correct, though globalisation might be a common place phenomenon in other fields.

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