More information on other programs: http://www.newdelhiworldbookfair.gov.in/events-2016/World-Book-Fair-Events-2016.html

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ABOUT NDWBF: KNOW THE NEW DELHI WORLD BOOK FAIR

New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF) held for the past 41 years, is now a major calendar event in the publishing world held at the centrally located Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

The Fair is organized by National Book Trust, India, an apex body of the Government of India, under the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO), the nodal agency of the Government of India under the Ministry of Commerce, for promoting the country’s external trade is the Co-organizer of the Fair.
Today Indian publishing stands poised at a significant crossroad towards the path of growth.

NDWBF offers the participants a unique opportunity of doing business with this growing book industry. It is also an ideal venue for promoting titles, co-publication arrangements and trade. Besides the many literary and publishing conferences and programmes to be organized during the Fair, it also opens up a gateway to the publishing and intellectual world of South Asia. The Fair attracts participation from major publishing houses of the globe.

India is the third biggest market for English publications with almost 12,000 publishers that publish around 90,000 titles a year in more than 18 languages. India’s main publishing output is in the various Indian languages.

The 2006 NDWBF witnessed 1,294 exhibitors on 38,000 sq. mts. (2004: 1,205 / 32.546) and attracted 1 million visitors including those from foreign countries such as USA, Bangladesh, France, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Canada, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Germany.