Guwahati: The Assam Book Fair concluded on Sunday with great success because sales of nearly Rs 2 Crore were recorded at the 12-day event amid omicron fear.
The exhibition recorded a daily average foot of around 25,000.
“Covid-19 challenges were there in the last edition of the exhibition too.
But we received extraordinary responses and recorded the highest footsteps of nearly 5 lakh since the first exhibition in 1984,” said Pramod Kalita, Secretary, Publication Board, Assam.He said The same publication board as this pandemic situation.
“The country has seen a fresh surge in the case of Covid-19 lately.
But the book industry must survive.
The Covid-19 protocol was followed on a fair soil,” he said.
The Board began the Assam book exhibition movement, organizing national level book exhibitions in Guwahati in 1984.
Organized to work with the National Book Trust of India.
It was a big success.
Then, the Board arranged the first Guwahati book exhibition in 1987 without collaboration with any institution.
Kalita said that the book worth RS 1.92 Crore was sold at last year’s exhibition week, organized after a two-year gap.
The book exhibition cannot be held in 2019 due to violence protests for the citizenship law (amendment) throughout the country and by 2020, the Coronavirus novel runs hoping all publishers, printers and readers.
Kalita added that the books, who recently won the Sahitya Academy award, was 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,” Total.
115 publishers and distributors participate in book exhibitions; Among them were 10 of the neighboring Bangladesh.Last Year, Ranju Neog Hazarika “Aalfar Kolngkito Adhyay” and “the life of the Dutta driver – Rupa 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 council released 16 new books at this year’s exhibition.