E-book

The writer Georgi Gospodinov will be a guest at the Spring Book Fair today. He will meet his readers from 18:00 p.m. at the Janet-45 publishing house stand in front of the National Palance of Culture (NDK).

Requests for books to be removed from U.S. shelves soared to a record-high in 2022, with the majority of titles "targeted for censorship" related to LGBT issues and minorities, according to data released by the American Library Association on March 23.

Turkey has ranked sixth among the countries that publish the most in the global industry, according to the country's publishing body.
The country remained in sixth place in the world ranking with 68,554 new books published in 2019, according to International Publishers' Association (IPA) data, the Istanbul-based Turkish Publishers' Association has said.

Bulgarian State Railways have launched Read on the Train campaign. Passengers who own a smart device can take advantage of the innovative method by scanning a special QR code, which is on trains, reports BNT. 

BDZ, together with Bulgarian publishers, launched the "Read on the Train" campaign, which aims to stimulate the reading of books in a modern way. All passengers with smart devices can touch new worlds while traveling through the magic of eBooks.

This month, Microsoft will close its library of eBooks, remove all content purchased by consumers, and pay compensations.

The company will fully refund customers' money and will even add $ 25 compensation to those who have taken notes in eBooks or have written annotations.

On the World Book and Copyright Day 23 April the club "Chitalishte.to" is organizing a donors campaign for books, reported BNR. They will be send to different community centers in Bulgaria.

The books will be collected from 11:00 to 15:00 at the "Chitalishte.to" 's office on the "Lom" Street in Sofia.

Curling up with a paperback may be a forgotten luxury for many thanks to today's busy lifestyles, but listening to a book on the go, while shopping or jogging, is fast becoming the new norm.

Gone are the cumbersome cassette sets that could cost three times as much as an old-fashioned book and often featured only excerpts to cut down on costs.

Bookworms can sink their teeth into thousands of free e-books available for free online. Just click on the links and start reading?

1. Project Gutenberg - offers over 46,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

2. The Online Books Page by the University of Pennsylvania hosts a book search and database.