Arevik Ashkharoyan, Literary Agent, ARI Literary Agency, Shares The Status And Trends In The Armenian Book Publishing Industry.

The Armenian book market is a small but rapidly developing industry in Armenia. Around 15-20 active publishers cover the 60 percent of the market, with the rest being imported books in foreign languages. “These are mostly general publishers and around 5 of them are considered big, with around 50-100 books per years. The majority of the Armenian language books are translations and only around 20 percent are written by local writers. Fiction makes the 60 percent of the market, non-fiction 20 percent and children’s books 20 percent. The translations are done mostly from big European languages, such as English, French, German, Spanish and Italian, but for the recent years it has become more inclusive in terms of languages as well,” shares Arevik Ashkharoyan, literary agent, ARI Literary Agency.

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