Book prices have increased 720-fold
There was a time when the price of books rose rial by rial and it probably also caused people's surprise. Today too, in every home a book can probably be found whose cover price is written in rials and causes our surprise!
The price of books from 1360 to 1396 (1981–2018) has increased from 25 tomans to 18 thousand tomans; 720-fold. If we ask publishers, they say, has anything remained cheap? Of course that is a fair point; perhaps the rise in book prices has even lagged behind the wave of price increases.
The greatest increase in book prices has taken place in this very recent decade; the 1390s decade, whose name is particularly bound up with high prices. In 6 or 7 years the average book price has increased 3-fold. The years 1396 to 1399 (2017–2021) too are named the years of prices' collective takeoff.
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Source: Iran Book House (Khane-ye Ketab)
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian