IN DEPTH Q&A


Guest of Honour Author interview


Gvantsa Jobava


Chair, Georgian Publishers and Booksellers Association


The publishing sector in Georgia has stabilised after challenges in the academic market in recent years, but there's a way to go in digital, too


Questions Tom Tivnan 26


TT Could you give us an overview of the Georgian


market? What is the general mood among the country's publishers and booksellers?


GJ It is a relatively small market. We have up to 100


registered publishing houses in Georgia. Among them, 12% are large publishers, 12% medium- sized and 76% small ones. Most publishing activit is concen- trated in the capital Tbilisi. The


AND WAS NAMED A FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR FELLOW IN 2015


JOBAVA HELPED ORGANISE THE TBILISI INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR FOR FOUR YEARS,


total revenue of all Georgian publishing houses from sold books in 2016 was GEL12.97 (around £3.8m). The number of copies sold through retail chan- nels was nearly 2.6 million. In recent times, 2013 was the most difficult period in the Georgian publishing sector because of a damaging textbook policy initiated by the government which hit the whole industry. The ministry of


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