{"id":6472,"date":"2025-02-19T07:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artion.in\/magazine\/?p=6472"},"modified":"2025-02-21T07:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T07:39:36","slug":"are-book-fairs-relevant-in-the-age-of-social-media-and-quick-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/are-book-fairs-relevant-in-the-age-of-social-media-and-quick-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Are book fairs relevant in the age of social media and quick commerce?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDelhi Book Fair 2025 was held between 1st and 9th February. (Express Photo by Ishika Roy)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cYou\u2019d think that after the pandemic, people would be drifting towards ebooks and PDFs, but to our surprise, that is not the case. Print and digital run parallel in sales, so the idea that people aren\u2019t picking up paperbacks and hardcovers is quite a myth,\u201d said Kirt Raj Phagna, deputy manager \u2013 journals (North India), SAGE Publishing, at this year\u2019s Delhi Book Fair held from February 1 to 9.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhagna\u2019s words came to life at Bharat Mandapam, where the convention centre was teeming with book lovers\u2014school kids on excursions, college students skipping class to stock up on their favourite titles, and even young couples turning their visit into a date. But in an era of e-commerce and instant delivery, what still draws people to such literary havens?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Source: Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delhi Book Fair 2025 was held between 1st and 9th February. (Express Photo by Ishika Roy)\u201cYou\u2019d think that after the pandemic, people would be drifting towards ebooks and PDFs, but to our surprise, that is not the case. Print and digital run parallel in sales, so the idea that people aren\u2019t picking up paperbacks and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-trending-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6480,"href":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions\/6480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artion.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}