Record Number of Books Produced in July

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Federation of Publisher Collective Societies Board Chairperson Münir Üstün has announced that 55,121,271 books were produced in July in an all-time record.

He said that the number of banderol requests was 410,641,305 in 2018 and the previous highest number of book production was recorded in September 2018 with 53 million.

"Book production, bookselling and reading rates are all different cultures. This is an encouraging development in terms of our main culture, the culture of reading. If the culture of reading develops, the country develops," Üstün said.

"Turkey ranks 16th in the world publishing sector. As the Turkish publishers, we ranked 11th last year. Because of the rising of currencies, we dropped five ranks. We are constantly working to be into top 10. We are sixth in new hew headlines," he added. (DB/VK)