Saigon's book road sees thousands of visitors but recent sales on the declineHCM City’s cultural authorities’ efforts to promote book reading as a lifelong habit have been successful, drawing a higher number of visitors to recent book exhibitions and fairs in the past six months. Twenty book stalls along HCM City’s ‘Book Road’, Nguyen Van Binh Street, attained a total sales turnover of VNĐ15 billion (US$675,000) in the last six months. Its programmes are not diverse, nor are the kinds of books on display, said Le Hoang, deputy head of the Book Road Steering Board. However, the Book Road has shown weaknesses in both organisation and activities. Sales at book stalls have been on the decline recently.

Source: VietNamNet News July 16, 2016 05:15 UTC