Chennai Book Fair closes today
Posted on: 22/Jan/2018 11:34:15 AM
The 44th Chennai Book Fair will close its doors today. The annual event is organised by the Booksellers’ and Publishers’ Association of South India, or BAPASI.
A senior office bearer at BAPASI said, The book fair has received an increased footfall this year, as more than 11 lakh readers have visited the fair until Sunday, which is higher than the previous year. Apart from increased footfall, the book fair has also registered higher sales this year. During the 2017 book fair, we had sold 10 lakh books on the whole. But we have sold more than 12 lakh books this year. With one day remaining, we expect more sales.
This year, the book festival has been conducted at Saint George Anglo-Indian Higher secondary school, Aminjikarai, with 708 stalls and 376 publishers. The books are being sold at 10 percent discount on actual cost, which is also a reason for the success of the fair.
Says the office bearer, To instil general knowledge in addition to subject knowledge, district education officials of Thiruvannamalai have sent 1,000 government school teachers to buy books, on Sunday. This is the first time when the education department took this kind of initiative. The teachers stayed at the fair the whole day boosting the sales.
Teachers said, The district authority had offered Rs. 1,000 each to buy books. The higher officials insisted that we have to read a variety of books so that we could educate students on the wider manner.
