"BOOKAREST" The Bucharest International Book Fair
5th edition
Venue: Etaj 3/4 Gallery in the National Theatre building, Bucharest
Date: June 5 - 9, 1997
Organizers: the artexpo Foundation
Rental fee: 250,000 lei/m2 for Romanian participants; 175 DM/m2 for foreign participants
Total exhibition area of the Fair: ca. 1 750 m 2
Exhibitors:

240 (83 from France, Germany, Britain, Hungary, Moldova, Belgium, Canada and Norway)

Romanian and foreign private publishers (140), state-owned publishing houses (17), publishing houses belonging to NGOs (3), publishing houses representing groups (21), literary agencies (DS-Druck und Verlags Service from Germany, Dancal Literary Agency from Canada, and 3 from Romania), foreign book distributors (15), Romanian book distributors (11), promotion organizations (2), suppliers of printing and publishing
equipment (2), printing and publishing houses (21), data base institutions (2), electronic and multimedia publishers (2), suppliers of electronic equipment (1)
Events:

book launches (over 160 new titles), 15 pannel discussions, debates and symposia, 4 exhibitions of photography and book design, contests with awards
Media coverage of the Fair: Catalogue of the Book Fair, invitation, poster, electronic information center (through Romdidac)
Important visits, personalities: Romania's Premier, members of the Romanian Government and Parliament, ambassadors, Romanian and foreign writers, public figures, graduates, retired persons and conscripts.
Entrance fee: 1,500 lei; for children, schoolchildren, students, soldiers - 700 lei
Visitors:

over 42,000