2010 Book Market in Turkey Report
General Statistics
| Total Population | 73.722.988 |
| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | 731.608 Million $ |
| GDP Per Capita (Purchasing Power Parity) | 50 |
Fundamental Publishing Data
| Number of publishing houses | 1605 |
| Number of bookstores | 6000 |
| Number of distribution companies | 150 |
| Number of new titles (2010 ISBN) | 34.865 |
| Number of books produced (2010 Banderole numbers) | 214.414.289 |
| Number of textbooks (Distributed free of charge) | 193.925.000 |
| Total number of books produced (Except less than 48 pages educational books) |
408.339.289 |
| Number of books produced per capita | 5,5 |
| VAT charged for books | %8 (Standard rate %18) |
Average book prices (USD)
| Net | Max | |
| Textbooks | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Trade Books | 10 | 18 |
| Academic Books | 10 | 15,4 |
2010 End Year Book Wholesales Market (USD)
| Segments |
Market Size (Million $) |
Market Share (%) |
|
| Educational Books |
750 |
60 |
|
| a. Textbooks | 190 | ||
| b. Supplementary Textbooks | 110 | ||
| c. Exam Preparation Books | 450 | ||
| Trade Books |
400 |
32 |
|
| Academic Books |
30 |
2,4 |
|
| Imported Books |
70 |
5,6 |
|
| a. ELT Books | 35 | ||
| b. Other imported books (academic books, library purchases etc.) | 35 | ||
| TOTAL |
1250 |
2010 End Year Book Retail Market (USD)
| Segments |
Market Size (Million $) |
Market Share (%) |
|
| Educational Books |
1125 |
58,25 |
|
| a. Textbooks | 190 | ||
| b. Supplementary Textbooks | 185 | ||
| c. Exam Preparation Books | 750 | ||
| Trade Books |
667 |
34,5 |
|
| Academic Books |
43 |
2,25 |
|
| Imported Books |
98 |
5 |
|
| a. ELT Books | |||
| b. Other imported books (academic books, library purchases etc.) | |||
| SUB TOTAL |
1933 |
||
| TOTAL (%7 consumer discount) |
1798 |
Number of Titles According to Subject Categories
35767 titles produced in 2010 are categorized as follows: 475 General Topics, 1281 Philosophy and Psychology, 2332 Religion, 12027 Social Sciences, 528 Language and Linguistics, 356 Natural Sciences and Matematics, 2094 Technology and Applied Sciences, 1187 Fine Arts, 12763 Literature and Rhetorics, 2724 Geography and History.
Libraries
Total number of public libraries under the General Directorate of Libraries and Publications in 2010 is 1136. In 2010, 3895 titles and 1050277 books has been purchased, 160 periodicals has been subscribed by the libraries.
[*] Some data in this report are compiled from the data of Turkish Statistical Institute, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Federation of Publishing Licensing Societies and Ministry of Education.