The book industry is considered one of Iran's vital cultural and social sectors and has a very long history. With its long past and boundless experience, this industry plays a fundamental role in providing information, promoting knowledge, developing the Persian language and literature, and culture and national identity.
In recent decades, the book industry has experienced major transformations; among these changes are transformations in the production process, distribution, sales patterns, and the production of audiobooks and e-books, as well as a change in the pattern of book consumption and the financial and economic challenges of this field. These transformations have had diverse effects on the book industry and have brought new challenges and opportunities. This report seeks to address important issues and challenges in Iran's book industry across seven chapters.
In the education, research, and content section, issues such as weakness in producing scientific and applied research on books, publishing, and reading, a gap in the specialized training needed in the book and publishing market, and publishers' limited attention to the role of the editor in book content are presented.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian