A feast for bookworms comes to Shanghai

More than 7,000 imported books will be on display at the fifth Shanghai Book Fair, officials said yesterday.

The one-week fair opens on August 13 in the Shanghaimart with a theme of "I like reading, I like life."

The fair will feature nearly 600 publishers to show more than 100,000 kinds of books, the Shanghai Press and Publication Administration said.

Two local importers ?? Shanghai Book Traders and China National Publications Import and Export Corp ?? will have 4,500 books at the fair, including novels, art books and dictionaries.

Some bestsellers in Europe and the United States and works of Nobel Prize winners will be promoted. There will also be more than 700 kinds of discounted imports.

Foreign publishers, such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and McGraw-Hill, will bring nearly 2,000 newly published books to the city.

More than 40 kinds of books will be making their debut at the fair with the organizer, Shanghai Xinhua Media Group, hoping to encourage the launch of more new books in the city, said Zhao Jianping, the group's vice president.

For the first time, the book fair will have a province of honor. Anhui Province, the first holder of the title, will display its publications.

Tickets for the fair, priced at 10 yuan (US$1.46), are available at newspaper kiosks and Xinhua book stores.

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