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GUADALAJARA – The 22nd Guadalajara International Book Fair ended over the weekend after having received 600,000 visitors and registered a general increase in sales, organizers said.
“The number of visitors is 12 percent higher than last year, and the number of professionals is similar, around 17,000,” book fair director Nubia Macías told Efe.
The fair, which ran from Nov. 29 to Dec. 7, is the biggest in the world of Hispanic publishing, with the presence of more than 1,600 publishing houses and close to 500 writers.
For its 22nd edition, the book fair grew from last year’s 26,000 square meters (6 1/2 acres) to 35,000 square meters (8 1/2 acres) this year.
“The big publishing houses reported much higher sales than last year, between 30 and 80 percent more, although some say their sales stayed about the same,” Macías said.
He added that sales at the 2007 fair totaled about $50 million.
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