Africa-Press – Angola. The lack of an effective literary market capable of giving a positive response to the main challenges of publishers and bookstores in the country has worried the members of the Angolan Association of School Editors and Booksellers (ASSAELE).
Adriano da Silva, promoter of ASSAELE events, defended the urgent need to create an annual cultural agenda, in which it is capable of stimulating and promoting reading and book habits. in the country.
For Adriano da Silva, the Book Fair, held on Saturday, at Shopping Fortaleza, located on the Marginal de Luanda, aimed to create new cultural facts, explore new spaces and create a test balloon for upcoming fairs.
In his view, there is a need for the book market, to get out of the comfort zone and be able to overcome the main challenges and concerns of publishers and bookstores, as it is being an obstacle to the very development of book production and the acquisition of raw material. .
As an association, he guaranteed, the purpose remains to safeguard the interests of school book publishers and others.
He explained that the first edition of the Book Fair, in partnership with the management of Shopping Fortaleza, aimed to celebrate the 446th anniversary of the city of Luanda, marked on 25 January.
At the fair, which included the participation of several national publishers, namely Editora das Letras, Moderna, Progresso, Popular, Mayamba, WA and Livraria AMS, a wide variety of books for all tastes and ages were exhibited.
With the prospect of more partnerships of this kind, ASSAELE wants to give greater visibility to national publishers and bookstores, motivating the public with a taste for reading.
ASSAELE’s main objective is to safeguard the interests and independence of associated school book publishers operating in Portugal. Through its governing bodies, its action is guided by total transparency and the fight against unfair competition, in conjunction with the Ministry of Education.
Although with a short time of existence, ASSAELE has played a very important role in the equitable distribution of manuals by the various publishers, ensuring and ensuring high quality teaching materials in a quick time.
In addition to defending the rights of associated editors, the association also ensures that the rights of authors of books edited by them are guaranteed.
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