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MELCOM 2016 Market Situation - TURKEY

Turkish Publishing Sector in 2015  The publishing industry grew by 11% in 2015  49.000 titles published, 384 million books printed (all- time high)  There are currently about 2000 publishers  92% of books printed by private publishers

Turkish Publishing Sector in 2015 Faith Number of Books Printed 6% 400.000.000 Academic Education 12% 350.000.000 28% 300.000.000 250.000.000 Children- 200.000.000 Youth 150.000.000 15% 100.000.000 50.000.000 Adult Fiction 0 Non-Fiction 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 20% 19%

Turkish Publishing Sector in 2015 E-Books Published Books by Subject 7000 16000 6000 14000 12000 5000 10000 4000 8000 3000 6000 4000 2000 2000 1000 0 2013 2014 2015 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Adult Fiction Adult Non-Fiction Education Academic Faith Children-Youth

Overview of the Market Structure PUBLISHERS 1. Ideological o Ultranationalist / Kemalist o Islamist / Conservative o Leftist o Kurdish 2. Non-Muslim Minority Publishers o Gözlem ( Jews) o Aras (Armenians) o Istos (Greeks) o GDK (Assyrians)

Overview of the Market Structure 3. Mainstream Publishers 4. Art / Museum Titles Publishers

Overview of the Market Structure 5. Governmental Publications 6. Self-Publishing Houses

Highlights of 2015  Centenary of the Dardanelles War – we have catalogued 51 titles in 2014-2016.  Centenary of the Armenian Genocide – we have catalogued 83 publications in 2015 versus 46 in 2014.  Ahmet Ümit’s new bestselling novel Elveda Güzel Vatanım appeared in November 2015. 300.000 copies sold.

Most Popular Non-Fiction Subjects  Ethnic Groups (mainly Kurds)  Minorities  Popular Ottoman History books  Food culture  Popular books on current politics

New Trends  Effects of popular TV series such as Muhteşem Yüzyıl and Aşk - ı Memnu (novel first published in 1923) o Increase in number of popular books on Ottoman history o Multiple publishers published multiple new editions of the Aşk - ı Memnu novel of Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil (1866 -1945) o More novels of the same author have been published.

New Trends  Increase in number of autobiographical interviews (nehir söyleşi ) = authorized biographies  Critical editions and transliteration of Ottoman Turkish classics with Arabic script. Specially novels and Divans  Transliteration, critical edition and facsimiles of Ottoman printed and manuscript works by the Turkish Manuscript Works Institution ( Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu)

New Trends  Increase in number of new publishing houses  More and more compilations of daily articles by popular columnists are published in book format.

Commercially Non-Available Publications  Publishers Government agencies o Municipalities (1397) o Provinces (81) o Culture and Tourism o Directorates of Provinces (81) Publishers of dissertations o Universities o NGO’s o Private people o Private companies and banks o

Commercially Non-Available Publications  Type of publications Festricht o Congresses, symposium papers o Food culture o Local archaeology o Local history o Local folklore o Local music o Local linguistics o Exhibition catalogs o Biographies of local celebrities o Local cultural heritage inventories (Kültür varlıkları ) o Transcription of demographic /archival registers o

Expected Developments  Publications of more Arabic books and journals. Already two bookstores opened by a Syrian and an Eritrean refugee selling o exclusively Arabic books  New Turkish journals on literature, history and social studies will appear  Increase in number of art titles and exhibition catalogs  Book fairs for Arabic language books

Difficulties in Sourcing and Selecting  Short run of books. Specially those published by faculty staff  More text books by faculty staff making difficult to differentiate text books from scholarly works  No visibility on commercially non-available publications  Short run of exhibition catalogs

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