Guwahati: The Assam book exhibition in the city has become a towing the main crowd since it started on December 29 despite the threat of Omicron.
Books worth more than Rs 1.5 Crore have been sold until Monday, the source said.
Publication Board, Assam, Secretary of Pramod Kalita, “On average, around 25,000 people visit every day until Monday.
The footsteps and sales of books have delivered expectations for the industry and show that the reading of physical books has not yet decreased even though we think the reader has shifted into the digital world “He said the book worth RS 1.92 Crore was sold in last year’s exhibition, organized after a two-year gap.
The book exhibition cannot be held in 2019 due to violent protests for the citizenship law (amendment) throughout the country and by 2020, Coronavirus destroys the expectations of all publishers, printers and readers.
Kalita added that books, who have recently won the Sahitya Academy award, have become the best-selling book this year.
“The famous writer Anuradha Sarma Pujari’s novel ‘Iyat Ekhon Aaronya Asil’, the short story of Abhijit Bora ‘Deuka Kobai Jay’ and the novel Mrinal Chandra Kalita ‘Bakul Phular Dare’ has seen the highest demand at the exhibition,” he said.
The total of 115 publishers and distributors participated in the book exhibition, including 10 came from neighboring Bangladesh.Last, Ranju Neog Hazarika “Aalfar Kolngkito Adhyay” and “Dutta Dutta’s life – Rupam Dutta” is the best selling book at Fair.
Hazarika arrested the dark days of the nineties when Ulfa had released a terrorist while Dutta told his experience as a driver in his first novel.
The publication board has released 16 books at the exhibition.
Go with an extraordinary response, visitors hope fair will be extended.
But Kalita said they did not have a plan to extend the fair exceeding January 9.