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Book publishing in Bulgaria is shrinking, scientific titles have majority

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In 2019, 8,604 books with a circulation of just over 6.3 million copies and 912 brochures with a circulation of just over 1.3 million were published in Bulgaria, the National Statistical Institute indicates. The published titles are 3.3% less than in 2018, and the circulation is 29.9% less than the previous year. 

Leading are publications in the scientific literature - a total of 2,972 titles with a circulation of 567,000, fiction - 2,146 titles with a circulation of about 1.2 million, and educational literature - with 1,743 titles with a circulation of 3.8 million.
79.6% of all published books and brochures are originally in Bulgarian. 55.8% of the published foreign literature is translated from English, 7% - from French, 6.4% - from German, 6.1% - from Russian, 2.4% - from Spanish.



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