Turkey - Book Production Data
Turkey - Book Production Data
Information on the book production in Turkey
Sales
Total sales approx. 810 million US $
Title production/New publications per annum
Total title production per annum: 20,000
Total new publications per annum: 5,700
Average book price
Hardback: 30 YTL (17.20 euros)
Paperback: 10 YTL (8.60 euros)
Fixed book prices
There are no fixed prices for books in Turkey.
Publishing companies make their titles available at a 45 – 55 % discount to wholesalers and at a 30 – 45 % discount to booksellers.
Copyright laws
Copyright Law: Pirat Yasası
Berne Convention
Universal Copyright Convention
Licence statistics
No standardised statistics are available on the purchase and sale of rights/licences by the Turkish book industry.
2007: approx. 4,169 original editions
2007: approx 1,536 translations
In 2006, German publishing companies sold the rights/licences for 150 titles to Turkish publishing companies, accounting for 1.7 per cent of the total volume in Germany. These titles are mainly in the categories: fiction (30), children’s (25) and teenage (18) books, medicine (18) and non-fiction (13). Rights for ten further titles were sold to German-Turkish publishing companies that publish in Turkish in Germany.
(Source: Buch und Buchhandel in Zahlen 2007, published by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V., Frankfurt am Main, July 2007)
Exports/Imports
Total exports and comparison to previous year, exports to Germany: no figures
Total imports and comparison to previous year: slight increase in 2005 compared to 2004.
Fiction: 6,200 copies
German as Foreign Language &
school textbooks: 8,500 copies
Technology: 800 copies
Number of publishing companies
1,724
Number of bookshops
Approx. 6,000
Number of distributors
50
Number of Turkish ISBN-registered titles
In the past ten years: 32,750
Sales/Sales Outlets
Publishing companies, wholesalers, bookshops, internet
Categories
School textbooks: 23.5 %
Educational aids: 23.5 %
Fiction: (37 % (40 % translations)
Academic books: 9 % (20 % translations)
Imported books: 7 %
Translations fiction
English titles, followed by German, French and Spanish
Language breakdown of books published
Turkish: 96 % (14,657)
English: 3.3 % (499)
German: 0.3 % (46)
Other languages: 0.4 %
Translated titles
2004: 2,686
2005: approx. 3,000
Book piracy
Number of confiscated books in 2005/06: 142,000
Source: Turkey Publishing/Piracy Sector: document by Emrah Özpirinçci (October 2006).
Book fairs
Book fairs are held once a year in Antalya, Ankara, Bursa and Izimir, and twice a year in Istanbul. The latter is also the venue for Turkey’s biggest and most important book fair; this is held regularly in October and November, organised jointly by TÜYAP and the Association of Turkish Publishers. Since 2002, this fair has been based in Beylikdüzü, a suburb of Istanbul. Its move out of the city centre caused considerable criticism among exhibitors and visitors as the fair is no longer as easily accessible. Nevertheless, since 2004 the Istanbul fair has repeatedly achieved new visitor and exhibitor records, an indication of a flourishing book market in Turkey. 67.5 per cent of the public at the fair are visitors under the age of 30; 58 per cent are men and 41 per cent women. The number of women visitors shows a rising trend.
Freedom of speech
“The physical threat to journalists that was still present in the nineties is now virtually non-existent. There has been a clear increase in the diversity of opinion and in critical reporting. Thanks to reform legislation in recent years, the administration of justice has become more liberal, but is still not uniform. Art. 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, Türk Ceza Kanunu (TCK) which makes an “insult to Turkishness” a criminal offence, has also been reformed by the current AKP government. With the amendment to this article coming into force on 8 May 2008, all pending cases are to be submitted to the justice minister for approval and are thus effectively suspended at the present time. The EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn, is calling for the deletion of this paragraph.”
(Source: Auswärtiges Amt (German Federal Foreign Office), June 2008, http:www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/Laenderinformationen/Tuerkei/Kultur-UndBildungspolitik.html)
Sources:
Auswärtiges Amt, http://www.auswaertiges/amt.de
bfai – Bundesagentur für Aussenwirtschaft
Buch und Buchhandel in Zahlen 2009, published by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V., Frankfurt am Main, July 2007
Die türkische Buchbranche, publ. by the Association of Turkish Publishers, May 2008
Geographics, http://www.geographixx.de
Turkey Publishing / Piracy Sector: document by Emrah Özpirinçci (October 2006)
Türkiye Yayıncılar Birliği (Association of Turkish Publishers, June 2008
As of: June 2008
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