Last year, Ukrainians bought books worth $112 million, and Germans bought books worth 9 billion euros.
Ukrainians bought books worth approximately $2016 million in 112; compared to 2015, there was an increase of 2-2,5 million, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
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This was stated on Wednesday by the President of the Ukrainian Association of Publishers and Book Distributors Alexander Afonin during a press conference of the organizers and participants of the 24th Publishers Forum in Lviv.
“Compared to 2015, the situation has not changed too much in the book market in terms of money. This is in the range of 110-112 million dollars. The increase compared to 2015 is 2-2,5 million dollars,” said Afonin.
He added that, for example, in Germany in 2016 they bought books worth 9,2 billion euros.
Afonin noted that children’s fiction is being bought more in Ukraine and the demand for the non-fiction genre is growing.
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