Book Fair exceeds all expectations
Feb 24, 2010
By Rokas M. Tracevskis
VILNIUS - The Vilnius Book Fair organizers are happy. Despite the crisis, 59,200 visitors came to this main annual cultural event of Lithuania which was held on Feb. 18-21 in the Litexpo exhibition center. This is 1,500 more visitors than in 2009. The amount of sold books was 1.5 times higher than in the previous year. For comparison, the first Vilnius Book Fair, back in 2000, was visited by 30,000 visitors. This year, despite the crisis, visitors were spending money like drunken sailors. The ...
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