The Vietnam Publishers Association (VPA) and the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City will organise an annual conference of the Executive Committee of the ASEAN Book Publishers Association (ABPA) and sidelines activities from September 14-19, according to the VPA.

Given great changes in readers’ approach and reading culture, implementing digital transformation is an urgent part of book publication, affirmed Nguyen Nguyen, Director of the Department of Publishing, Printing, and Issuing under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Ho Chi Minh City Book Street has become known among book lovers as an ideal reading space and a venue for activities spreading the love and habit of reading.

The birth of Vietnam Book Day demonstrates the timely attention as well as the vision of the Party and Government to promote the reading culture in Vietnam.

The sixth Vietnam International Book Fair kicked off in Hanoi on August 23, attracting 94 foreign and domestic publishers with nearly 40,000 titles and thousands of other copies.

More than a million people flocked to the seven-day book festival in Ho Chi Minh City that ended on the night of March 27.

Ho Chi Minh City’s ninth Book Festival will take place at Le Van Tam Park in District 1 from March 21 to 27, bringing together about 200 domestic and overseas publishers.