The printed books are not threatened

Thus, assessment of the world's most prestigious book approach of the army at the Frankfurt International Book Fair has given a statement to the MTI Hungarian Book Publishers and Distributors Meeting (MKKE) president.
Peter Laszlo Zentai stressed that the culture of the entire world reflected back to the fair ended Sunday, and the size of that range, "unthinkable and bejárhatatlannak" called. He recalled that during the five-day fair, about 15 thousand square meters, 300 thousand visitors came up to 106 countries - including Hungary - nearly 7500 exhibitors were present.
The great tradition of the past decades, a plethora of Hungarian literature in Frankfurt könyvvásárok establishing recognition of the current row is now the 63 th was. In this year's - just like in the past few years - one of the main theme and the main trends of the continuing digitization, e-books were gaining ground. However, Peter Laszlo Zentai, stressed that the printed books are not threatened. He recalled that at the Frankfurt fair, ten years ago, was the slogan that "Sorry, Mr. Gutenberg," but - as stated - Gutenberg's invention of the printed book is still alive.
As a supporting evidence to suggest that the world's most demanding, most diverse, best book of the German edition of the German book market overall but only 0.5 percent of the e-book. In Hungary, this share is about the same size. The digital book ratio is the most advanced computer technology in countries with less than 10 percent. Although almost a week displayed rating of the so-called e-book expansion of the Frankfurt book fair in any kind of "overwhelming force" could not have experience - said the MKKE Chairman said: a trend reversal lot of talk, but in reality it is far not occurred. The world's printed cultural offerings has not diminished.
This is the same culture, however diverse, exciting and novel setting than ever before. In addition, the Third World's economic growth draws huge crowds in the könyvkiadásba, just to mention China and India. The economic crisis has indirectly had an impact but the recent trade fair, where a slight decrease compared to last year the number of visitors, participants and stagnation, which is actually a decrease. However, there is no dramatic downturn.
Hungary - as noted - literature really became known in Germany, so the Hungarian booth and outside the borders of contemporary Hungarian literature is still the best of the works have been presented. The lack of public support but are now able to organize small-scale cultural events than ever before. The "protagonist", Garaczi Laszlo was Austria who recently appeared in German's latest book on the face and back face of the great Hungarian translator living in Vienna, Budapest, George was presented. However, "the times following the" stand in the Hungarian conference on e-books is one of the largest broker of such content Hungarian, Kossuth Publishing organization.