the price floor in the city of home appliances, in the city of home appliances, any way you count, you are the winner of this meeting, the first page, the meeting, the first page of isar is over there on the other side of the fence, look, the pleasure of meeting is there. to you, on the other side of your table, the eyes of a martyr are to you. in the name

of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful, greetings to you, dear compatriots , welcome to the first page program. these days coincide with the biggest annual cultural event that is held in the country, namely the international book fair, which started on the 19th of ardi behesh month, and god willing, its final ceremony will take place tomorrow. will be implemented during this time we witnessed that thousands of people from people and book lovers should go to the exhibition, which is of course both electronically and in person, and use the news of the publication in order to know how much and how much this exhibition is and

to find out the extent of people's acceptance of the exhibition, sir. dr. yasir ahmadvand , the respected cultural deputy of the ministry of culture and islamic guidance , who is also the head of the book fair , appeared in front of the front page camera to talk about this issue. welcome to the front page program. dear sir, dear viewers of the good page program first of all, i would like to thank you for your invitation. well , the exhibition will pass its final days, god willing, and tomorrow is the last day. your evaluation as the person who steered the changes and developments in the exhibition, and of course, more than anyone else in the course of the reception

how do you evaluate people and... as far as content areas are concerned this year? we thank god for this special blessing that exists in our country in a situation where we live in an inflammatory region, but in our country there is a big book exhibition in tehran and the words of the people and their interest in attending the exhibition and how to attend and choose. the novelties of the book are conversations with their favorite authors and such events are a blessing that we have in our country and we thank god for this . the subject of the book is about a few million people . they eagerly come to the exhibition and

see the latest news from up close , get to know different cultural programs and cultural events and participate in them. therefore , there is gratitude here. thank god this year too showing good fortune, the publishers participated in the exhibition. in different subjects. a variety of themes and tastes were presented in the exhibition. likewise, people enthusiastically attended the exhibition from the first hour on the first day . during my first hour at the exhibition, i entered the hall a few minutes before the doors of the exhibition even opened. as soon as the doors opened, the first

person i saw entered the hall. that i live in sweden and every year for the book fair. to tehran i'm coming to tehran , i'm making my plans for the exhibition, i'm going to participate in the exhibition during these days , and he came to visit the exhibition in the first hour, and there's a lot of luck and welcome in the exhibition . it seems that this year is similar to the previous years, of course, last year it was the same as the book seller. they also participate in the exhibition . how was the effect of this issue during the two years that it has been held? in the three periods that i was responsible for organizing the exhibition, we tried to make changes in the exhibition. these changes are also changes.

it should be strategic and big to help the publishing industry , one of these important changes. addition of bookstores to sellers in the book fair. although there are opposing opinions on this issue. but our assessment was that all publishing circles should be part of the exhibition. co-creators who are present in the exhibition by holding many cultural programs. there are unveilings, tributes, celebrations and signings. publishers, who shaped the main body of the exhibition in these years, as well as books, which were a part of the exhibition that were not given much attention, if we want to, during the year let's organize our book, its production and distribution, we must

see all the rings in the exhibition. more than 350 bookstores will be present in the virtual section of the exhibition this year. and presenting the books they get from the publishers right there and making them available to the people has also been well received because the publisher may not be present at the exhibition for any reason , but people can buy the book from the bookstores that are there and get it. one of the serious changes in the book fair was in these 3 years that i mentioned, and there were other changes, including additions. becoming a virtual part, which before this we had a virtual part we did not have an exhibition. this year, we had 2 major changes in the exhibition, which i will explain below if there is a chance. please

, what was the status of the subsidies that were intended for the purchase of books for students, and was this, of course, to the extent that it helps , but from your point of view, was it enough or not? no , the subsidy that we give to students , we give to professors, we give to students is far from the real need that a student has and a student has in order to provide the books he needs. now the figures of 400,500 thousand tomans that we help buying is really the same as buying two or three books, the average is two or three books, and this is very far , very little. this is not necessarily the case. we request that the ministry of science, the honorable ministry of science and the honorable ministry of health

help to provide for the students and professors. in addition, we requested the honorable government to help, god willing, this credit will increase significantly for the next year. of course, honorable minister, following up in the government has just been approved as an additional credit it should be available to the government employees for purchase, the resources did not reach the exhibition, but during the year , the book market system, which is the system that books are connected to him throughout the year and the works are offered as soon as possible.

what was the amount or number of publishers who actually participated in this exhibition and of course marked this great cultural event? this year, more than 1,600 publishers came in person and presented their works in several sections. for example , there are several sections for hosting publishers, shabestan is the section of public publishers, where two special halls are reserved for children and teenagers. on the two floors of university publishers , there was an independent hall dedicated to the disabled and one hall for foreign publishers, apart from half a floor in shabestan. there was an international section of the exhibition. in total , about 1600 publishers

presented their works in these places that i mentioned. in the virtual section, the number of publishers is more, because publishers who have a small number of works, even if they have one work, the publisher can appear in the virtual section and present his work. about 2,700 publishers presented their works in the virtual section. in the international section, in addition to some publishers countries have also participated independently , for example, i saw that yemen, turkey, and pakistan had come . how was the selection process? we have a section for foreign publishers, which is a section where publishers are present and sell their books. pricing is based on the government dollar rate. and people can buy books there with a discount. that the official institutions

representing foreign countries in iran, their embassies and their cultural advisors are present there, and the special guest of the exhibition, who was chosen this year from yemen , was present there. does it depend on the landing rate? it is known so far , of course you should know, but because the price of books has increased a bit now, and the amount of income, which i can't say, the amount of sales, must have increased. statistics are extracted from card readers and our virtual sales portal. about 425 billion tomans are the total sales of the face-to-face and virtual sectors, which is approximately

14 billion tomans, and about 467 billion tomans is related to the virtual sector, and almost twice this, that is, about 280 billion tomans. 290 billion tomans in the in-person part of the exhibition . this number is the number we had until last night, which has increased from last year's number. of course, today is a busy day of the exhibition and tomorrow we will have an increase in sales. it will definitely be more than last year. well, the expectation is the same. after all, the price of the book has increased, it has become more expensive, but we predict that there will be a slight increase in the number of exhibitions. ok, until last night , people bought about 900,000 copies of the book in the virtual section

, almost twice as many were bought in the face-to-face section , because the number of sales in the face-to-face section was about double. it means about 1,800,000 copies , approximately 2,70,800,000 copies were sold in the face-to-face section. for example, we had sales almost until last night, which will naturally increase today and tomorrow . it will definitely exceed 3 million copies. we think we will have a slight increase in the number of copies compared to last year. with one effort, people will buy books within a week or day, that is. face-to-face and non-face-to-face now close to this figure and this shows that these

figures that are sometimes in some media it is said that the rate of study per capita in the country is not good with these statistics . what is your opinion as someone who follows the subject more specifically? we are definitely people of the book. we have this clear meaning that books and reading books are a value in the eyes of people, that is, a positive characteristic . even if people do not read books , they look at the person who reads books as an educated person , so it is valuable for them to attend the exhibition. socially positive, they know that they plan. it is in the cultural calendar of families. they like to plan for book screenings being present with the family is a special

social behavior, therefore it is positive and a positive approach should be taken. let's face it, the study rate in our country is better than many countries in the world. we are certainly not among the first few countries in the world, but the study rate is not such that we feel that we are far from the best countries in the world. asia is definitely one of the top countries in the world , of course, the methods of calculating these statistics are different, but with all kinds of methods, we are among the top 15-20 countries in the world. sometimes the doctor gives such statistics, for example, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, which really worries people

, but when people welcome the exhibition. and that purchase, after all, the person who comes to buy a book usually wants to read it, but there is no reason to buy a book, keep it at home, for example, if it becomes expensive and sell it later, that means hoarding, which he does not want to do . where are the roots of the statistics? this is actually a debate that is sometimes raised in the media. the reality of the story is not like this. first of all, as i mentioned, the method of measuring per capita study is different it means that different research institutes and researchers in the world

use different methods to measure what is possible in a survey. watching some tv programs should be considered as a part of study or referring to some websites should be considered as part of study. or, in some places, reading religious books , praying the holy book of the qur'an is considered as a per capita study. or educational books and their calculation methods and textbooks are different. in our country, from 16 minutes a day. we have statistics for up to an hour and a half because of this difference in the selection of the survey parameters and also the society in which we conducted the survey. sometimes the whole country is calculated, sometimes the active population of the country is calculated, so it is debatable, the lights of all kinds of statistics

are the same even in other countries. the most read countries and its people are among the most educated. well, this is far from reality. although indians read books, it does not mean that they are among the top countries in the world. but some of the surveys are like this because of what i am saying, that is, different metrics are seen to evaluate the study of our country, we can definitely say that we have people who are interested in books, people of books. we like the new generation of term books from the old ones. what is the reason? the reason is that the number of books for children and teenagers increases every year and they are popular and welcome. the number of publishers of books for children and teenagers is increasing now and the amount of the ones that are published for the first time. yes

, every year, a number of publishers are added to the publishers of children and teenagers as well as other fields. although in the issuance of the publishing license, the specialty of the publisher is not included and this license is issued publicly, but the publishers who choose their field of work should produce works for children and teenagers every year. there are some good artists who are working now , that is, we have good artists in the country, whose works are truly world-class and are selected and appreciated in different festivals every year . for this reason, we announced the event of the national and international festival of children and teenagers in the same exhibition, and its emblem was unveiled. this year, the first course of this race will be held. we emphasize on the child and adolescent sector, which we

have strength in this field in our country. therefore , the children's section is definitely one of the progressive sections of our publishing, good publishers, good writers, expensive images well, we have the most amount now. book production or book printing, i mean the first edition of the book, mostly in what fields is it characteristic, yes, we are in the field of social sciences , in the field of literature, religion, and children, these four fields are the most titled works, the most works are approximately how many years old, and the most works are in these four fields are published after these , it will be placed in the next categories, but these four titles are the most published titles in these four subjects and these four categories in the country, that is, social sciences, do you mean

human sciences or not? sh and now from political science, economy, management , business fields, education, anthropology, law. political science naturally puts these collections under the category of social sciences, management and the collection of these books. naturally, it is a large category , a large category of literature, well , children and young people and religion are also among the subjects in which many books are published. their numbers are significant in the field of literature , for example, stories and stories. and the novel and the poem and these , or yes, the foreign story, the domestic story, and the poem are the three main categories of our literature, if it is true.

let me remember that we have about 1,500 titles of foreign fiction books and about the same amount of domestic fiction in the country, that is, about 3,000 titles in the domain. literature every year in our country , there is a first edition book, well, the number is appreciable, it is important, the good works of the world are translated , published, and our authors have good productions , a country where literature is alive and is produced , the country is optimistic, lively and alive, literature is its main pillar. creative and a country whose people are their writers. they are creatively producing the creation of the grand living country, dynamic and hopeful, and the ratio of translation to authorship

actually, how is the production and writing in the country , it differs in different subjects, but in general and the average, if i say, it is almost the same ratio. in the exhibition, sometimes we go as the broadcaster. one of the issues and one of the grievances that they raise is the issue of the increase in the price of books , do you feel this too or not, that means

they will transfer this grievance to you or not? of course, we should raise the issues more precisely to say that the book is more expensive than other books. the reality is not like this, but it is the book is an accessible commodity for those who like it , it is not like this, that is, we like to sell the book at a more reasonable price, libraries have a kind of constant consumption of books, they have to buy books every week, we all have to buy books, and now we are buying books for a professional library. it is difficult to continuously, this is true, but it depends on the general conditions of price increase. alhamdulillah, with the trend we are facing with the government's economic measures, the relative stability of the inflation reduction makes us

witness such stability in the book. let's hope that gradually the prices will be suitable, with the increase in income, it will be possible to buy of course, we have to do two more things as the government, yes, one is to strengthen people's access to libraries, the library should be close, the resources should be up-to-date , we don't need to buy all the books, if we can easily borrow from the library, then part of the needs will be met. it solves the possibility of buying books for the book class. with these foundations, facilities and credit possibilities should be provided to the book and cultural sector to buy books in both fields . the government is willing to do this. be it in addition, one of the issues that causes the price of books to increase is perhaps printing. there is a question about

paper, is it wise to think about it in these fields ? paper allocates approximately 20 to 30% of the cost of the book to itself. it is not that paper really has the main share in the pricing or the cost of the book, but it is important because somehow the last cost is almost the publisher to produce the book. yes, and usually you have to pay for this . it is a serious cost. well, remember, at the beginning of this government's work, the country was not in a very good position in the field of paper production. about 5 thousand tons in the country's paper was produced in mazandaran paper factory alhamdulillah with the follow-up of the ministry of culture and islamic development on the order of the honorable president.

paper production in the country has boomed, the mazandaran factory is now producing well, this year we printed all the education textbooks with mazandaran paper . for the first time in the history of the country, this iranian student is reading a book whose paper is produced in iran , a part of the need for publishing. it was also ensured by launching and dropping. the zagros shiraz factory, which is almost 100%, only has the problem of electricity supply, which, god willing, will be solved. there, at least 30 thousand tons up to 50,000 tons will gradually meet the needs of the country. with the establishment of that factory, almost the needs of education and publishing of the country will be met. of course , some papers that we need in our country, such as glossy paper or cardboard or paper with high grams.

at the moment, it is not possible to produce in the mazandaran factory , it is possible in the zagros factory , we hope that it will be possible for us to have all kinds of paper, but the government has not imposed any restrictions on imports, which means that until the country does not need 100 dinars, we will definitely import. easily almost by providing currency by the government with providing value by the government. this import also happens by traders, we don't have a shortage of paper in the market , but its price naturally fluctuates with the increase in the price of currency or fluctuations in the price of currency . my colleagues prepared a report from the book fair. may is the month of the exhibition and

the spring that accompanies the book. the books had an ups and downs journey. from 1366, the first period of tehran book fair. this exhibition album is accompanied by newer images day by day and slogans that have changed every year. let's read and make. since the. corona, the virtual part was placed next to the exhibition, the part that still remains in the system with the address of the book.r. the number 9198.98 from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm usually responds to the buyers of the virtual part of the exhibition. and now, the book exhibition is one of the exhibitions in terms of visitors and area