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What Do We Read?

Panorama.am

13:03 04/08/2007

WHAT DO WE READ?

`About seventy percent of library visitors are students. They mainly
read curriculum books,’ Vergine Arakelyan, deputy director of Yerevan
Avetik Isahakyan Library, told Panorama.am. In her words, annually
197,000 books are read, out of which mid school aged children take
36,000. `Four hundred to six hundred books are donated to the library
each year. Ninety percent are Armenian authors. Authors and books
included in curricula have the most demand,’ the deputy director said.

Panorama.am inquired from Yerevan books shops about the market demand
for books. The World of Books said the demand for colorful children’s
books have gone up. Many have been asking for Orhan Pamuk’s Nobel
Prize book. Students buy professional and modern foreign literature.
The classics are of interest for mid-aged customers. Professional and
mature aged people are interested in history books. Paolo Coelo and
Oksana Robski are the two modern writers that enjoy the greatest
interest among customers. Den Braun and his Code Da Vinci have the
highest demand. Modern Armenian writers have no demand today, the
bookshop assistants say.

Source: Panorama.am

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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