2021-04-22 18:05:25 GMT2021-04-23 02:05:25(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
ATHENS, April 22 (Xinhua) World Book Day, which falls on April 23, will feel different this year across Greece. Gone are the book fairs, and there will be no competitions and festivities in libraries and in the streets.
But there are still reasons by the plenty to celebrate as books can always take their readers to new places even if they can t travel, book lovers told Xinhua in Athens. They acknowledged, though, that the financial results of the Greek book publishing market are anything but glorious. World Book Day is celebrated to remind all of us that the book is primarily a cultural asset and secondarily a commercial product, Nestoras Poulakos, co-owner of the Vakxikon Media & Publishing Group, told Xinhua in a recent interview. By reading books, people can travel, become better persons and heal their souls. I hope that the oversupply of books will continue, enabling each of us to find the ones
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