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The number of computers publishing houses own varies between one andfive. Most of the publishers have a scanner and some of them havephotocopiers. Some of the publishers sell small quantities of books in theiroffices but none of them sell on-line.Publishing houses owned by non-Kurds and some leftist organizationshave also published Kurdish books but the number is quite small. Forexample, about 10 such books have been published in 2000s.3.1.1 Publishers’ organizationsKurdish publishers in Turkey do not have their own organization. As faras I could find out, among the Kurdish owners of publishing houses onlyVate, Avesta and Pêrî Publishing House owners are members of the TurkishPublishers Association. The owner of Nûbihar Publishing House is a memberof the Association of Press and Publishing.The annual membership fee of the Turkish Publishers Association for2006 is 40 New Turkish Liras, which some publishers consider to be tooexpensive for membership.3.2 Printing houses and printingI mentioned earlier that pre-printing is done by the Kurdish publishersthemselves and covers are made by designers, artists and otherprofessionals. Texts of books for publishing are taken to printing houses intracing paper, and the colourful parts and pictures – in films.With the exception of a few publishers like Öz-Ge and Beybûn, almost allbooks published by Kurdish publishers have been printed in Istanbul.Although there are printing houses in Diyarbekir, even Kurdish publisherswith offices there print their books in Istanbul because printing is cheaperthere. According to Deniz Gündüz, owner of Vate Publishing House, the lackof printing houses with suitable prices and conditions in Kurdish cities has anegative influence on Kurdish book publishing. A publishing house based inIstanbul is far from the towns where Kurdish is spoken and thus from itsreaders, and transportation of the books to Kurdish towns and theirdistribution there is also more expensive and difficult.There is no Kurdish publishing house that prints its books abroad. Printon demand is not practised in Kurdish publishing yet.Printing machines are usually Heidelberg and Roland Parva.Some publishers buy their own paper whereas others rely on the printinghouses. If the publisher supplies his own paper, he gets a discount forprinting.28
3.3 Print runPrint-run of books published in Kurdish varies between 1000 (most often)and 5000.According to my findings, the print-run of 305 books is as follows:Print runNumber of books1000 1751100-1500 771700-1750 62000 253000 153500 25000 5As indicated above, 175 out of the 305 books (57,4 %) have a print run of1000.The expenses to print 1000 copies of a book of about 100 pages arebetween 700 and 1000 New Turkish liras (aproximately 500-714 USD).As I have already stated, dictionaries and grammar books are the bookswhich are most often printed and bought. After that come poetry books offamous poets like Cîgerxwîn and Ebdulla Peşêw, as well as novels and shortstories of a few popular writers. Religious books are often published and sellwell too, together with some classical poetry of Nûbihar Publishing House.3.4 Book distribution and sales3.4.1 BookshopsBooks in Kurdish are sold in some bookshops in major cities of Turkeysuch as Istanbul, Ankara, Adana, Mersin, Konya and in cities and townswith a Kurdish population such as Ağrı, Diyarbekir, Batman, Bingöl, Bitlis,Elazığ, Erzurum, Hakkari, Kars, Mardin, Muş, Tunceli, Urfa, Van. The citieswith the greatest sales are Diyarbekir, Mardin, Batman, Istanbul and Mersin.When bookshops receive the books directly from the publishing houses,they get 40-50 % of the profit from the sale; if the book is provided by adistributor, the sale profit drops down to 30 %. There are bookshops thatbuy books directly from publishers and pay immediately, thus getting adiscount of 50-60 %. Some Kurdish publishers I have talked to say theyusually take the Kurdish books to bookshops themselves and that bigdistributors do not show much interest in these books.29
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