AZERIS ARE FAR FROM BEING BIBLIOPHILES

News.am
16:36 / 08/20/2009

Azeris are no more interested in books. Aliaga Jafarov, "Akademkniga"
store manager told 1news.az that the purchase interest of readers
reduced compared to last years. Overall, the bookselling decreased
for 30-35%.

"I have no clue what are the reasons for this, hopefully this situation
is urgent only for our store. My colleagues have recently complained
about the same problem and tried to find the way out," Jafarov said.

About 70% of all books published in Azerbaijan are sold in
"Akademkniga" store, excluding literature from Dubai, Russia and Iran.

"I work in this field for 30 years and cannot explain the decline of
reading interest particularly, and in books on the whole, especially
among young people," the manager concluded.