Household Book Expenditure Declines Amid Rising Prices

Besides inflation and economic hardships, the threefold rise in the prices of books compared with five years ago has reduced the share of books in households’ consumption basket. 
Although publishers struggle to keep up the number of first-edition book, the size of print runs [the number of copies printed at one time] is declining by the year, Otaghiranonline.ir reported. 
According to statistics by Iranian Book and Literature Home, a total of 103,805 books were published in the last Iranian year (ended March 20), of which 75,070 were written and 28,735 were translated, indicating an 8% growth compared with the year before. The number of first editions stood at 64,993 and reprints at 28,790; the total number of copies printed last year was 112,517,383.