Great interest in this year's book fair what more Kosovars are reading and what age

Nezir Prokshi, owner of the publishing house Mesharı, sees a huge change in this year's fair. He says about Periscope There are mass participations of people, especially students organised by elementary and high school.

It's a big change from last fair, but it's also a preliminary fair. A change that makes me happy because it's a massive turnout far older than other years. Last year, and this year, elementary and high school students also attended grouped. They come with teachers and visit all yours at the fair and have great interest in the book. This year's biggest interest in Panar is generally about children's books. They seek literature as well as novels but not poetry. The literature of the war for older people, Prokshi said of Periscope.

He also says that selling books is on the decline, giving even remarks about the greater use of social networks. On the other hand, he shows which boils are the most popular in his tent these days.

Rain is modest, since we unfortunately read a little. I've got a serious note because they're paying more attention to Facebook, which I'm not overlooking is this is an information tool. The greatest concern and demand of people are for scientific books because professors who teach university students give very little interest to creative work. Scientific work in my tent requires more middle age and those of my age. Older times, more political literature, but also works of different classics, which in Kosovo are missing, Prokshi has said.

Mesharır's representative complains about the lack of translation of foreign books into Albanian.

There is a team that translates literary works from prominent world writers. We also have Albanian writers who are names and write well, but we also have to communicate the world through the books that are translated. The Kosovo translator has very little. Except in Albania, which are more expensive for us. This year's prices are reasonable, up to 30 percent discount to us.

Caltrin Berisha, of the publishing house "Besim Musliu" says about Periscope that readers are preferring foreign authors rather than Albanian ones. According to her, this year in her tent, prose and novels are dominated.

We have authors from Anamorawa. Out of strangers, we have several titles that have been sold extremely much. Prose writings dominate, and poetry has much less. In general, the situation is good. Readers ask us the first question if there are foreign authors. They are less committed to Albanian authors. The most interested age is over 35 years - perhaps more so than they have a culture of reading - they are also addicted to poetry. Prices are reasonable, there's a 30-50 percent discount.

And so has Arber Berman, representative of the publishing house, Fajik Konica. Periscope about the work they're doing at the 2019 Book Fair, saying all ages are finding themselves there and that interest is enjoyable. There have been discounts of the book price of up to 30 percent in his tent.

This is the 21st annual organised fair. Interest is enjoyable. There are visits from all ages, from children, even older ones. I believe everyone finds themselves at this fair. There are new publications for all generations. Depending on the nature of the publications is interest. We have more historical, critical-lethars, prose-poez publications. They all have their readers. Fair publishers have made a price cut of between 20 and 30 percent, Canton said.

Contented with this year's fair is the result of citizens. Lightening Haziri told about Periscope What books he bought today.

This year's Panair is looking better than last year's. I see there are more people. The books were mostly good. I went to see the medical book section because I also study this field. The novels were good as well. I bought more medical books today, but I also saw some novels here. Prices were generally reasonable. Today was the first time I went to the fair this year, Haziri said.

So does the other citizen Luljeta Haziri. Periscope that she is a fan of novels and that the prices seem quite convenient in tents.

It's the second day I'm going out to see books at this year's fair. There's a lot of choice. I'm still a Romantist. I bought some today. Organizing seems pretty good this year. There is also a strong audience. Prices are also reasonable. The book is of great value, so some who are better are worth buying, it relates.

Association of Editors Chairman Edon Zenelli at the solemn opening had said that keeping the book fair alive in a small country like Kosovo is top news.

In this case, he had invited all the country's institutions to operate and raise their attention to libraries.

This year, participants have been more than 100 publishers from Kosovo, Albania and Northern Macedonia, with over 1500 new titles./ P ERISCOPI/