Ho Chi Minh City Book Street (Source: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Over 750,000 copies of books have been sold on the HoChi Minh City Book Street (Nguyen Van Binh Street in District 1), which have attractednearly 4 million visitors so far and made atotal revenue of 67 billion VND (2.98 million USD).
Over the last two years, a series of activitieswere organsised at the street, with over 267 events introducing new books and hostingexchanges with writers. There were also activities to celebrate the nation’simportant events, as well as book and photo exhibitions.
Quach Thu Nguyet, Deputy Director of the HCMC Book Street Co., Ltd notedthat this model creates a place for promoting reading culture in the community,thus responding to the national lifelong learning strategy.
According to Nguyen Manh Hung, General Directorof Thai Ha Books Company, a number of foreign book publishers are veryinterested in reading culture in HCM City, Hanoi and some other localities ofVietnam.
They sent experts working in publishing and communications to the city to findout how to develop an attractive model like this, Hung said.
Director of Nha Xuat Ban Tre (the Youth Publishing House), Nguyen Minh Nhut stressed theexpansion of the model should be carefully considered, especially there is aneed to conduct a survey on demand, resources and financial capacity of publishers.
According to Vice Chairwoman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen ThiThu, the second street of this kind will be shortly opened in District 7.-VNA
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