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Essential Facts about the Czech Book Market in the Year 2002 Essential Facts about the Czech Book Market in the Year 2002
TABLE III
Main Book Producers in the Czech Republic According
to the Number of Titles Published in the Year 2002
(excluding university and state institutions publishers)
Production in 2001 and 2000 is featured for comparison.
1. Moravská Bastei - MOBA, Brno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 / 297 / 227
2. BB art, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 / 217 / 165
3. IŽ, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 / 368 / 438
4. Euromedia Group – Knižní klub, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 / 205 / 183
5. Euromedia Group – Ikar, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 / 180 / 198
6. Harlequin, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 / 285 / 272
7. Grada Publishing, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 / 214 / 174
8. Computer Press, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 / 169 / 132
9. Egmont ČR, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 / 131 / 102
10. Ladislav Horáček - Paseka, Prague/Litomyšl . . . . . . . . . . . 145 / 100 / 31
11. Alpress, Frýdek-Místek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 / 92 / 70
12. Dashöfer, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 / 71 / 64
13. Academia, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 / 99 / 108
14. Václav Svojtka & Co, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 / 100 / 105
15. Fragment, Havlíčkův Brod/Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 / 110 / 121
16. Karmelitánské nakl., Kostelní Vydří . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 / 56 / 70
17. Albatros, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 / 111 / 105
18. Argo, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 / 73 / 67
19. - 20. C.H. Beck, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 / 71 / 71
Portál, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 / 93 / 122
Source: National ISBN Agency
TABLE IV
Main Book Producers in the Czech Republic According
to the Number of Titles Published in the Year 2002
(university and state institutions publishers only)
Production in 2001 and 2000 is featured for comparison.
1. Technical University, Brno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 / 220 / 281
2. Czech Statistical Office, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 / 129 / 76
3. Masaryk University, Brno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 / 320 / 216
4. Palacký University Publishers, Olomouc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 / 180 / 146
5. ČVUT Publishers, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 / 178 / 140
6. University of Economics, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 / 127 / 99
7. Karolinum, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 / 156 / 195
8. Czech Agricultural University, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 / 141 / 104
9. Technical University, Liberec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 / 97 / 47
10. Mining – Technical University, Ostrava . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 / 111 / 139
11. K. E. Macan Library and Printers for the Blind . . . . . . . . . 132 / 23 / …*
12. West-Bohemian University Publishers, Plzeň . . . . . . . . . . 126 / 123 / 79
13. Mendel Agricultural and Forestry University, Brno . . . 102 / 138 / 42
14. Pardubice University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 / 91 / 60
15. Czech Geological Institute, Prague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 / 10 / 52
Note.: * Information not available. Data concerning the production of books for the blind
are submitted irregularly, as most these titles are published in several volumes, often
only being completed after a period of many years. Information about a published title is
only submitted after the work is complete.
Source: National ISBN Agency
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Structure of Book Production
The structure of the Czech book production has not changed
to any significant degree in the past several years. Books in
Czech have once again been dominant in Czech Republic’s
book production - amounting to almost 90% (12 826 titles in
absolute numbers). Another 468 titles published in 2002 were
in Czech combined with another language; 172 titles were
multilingual. In the foreign-language production of Czech
publishers, English clearly dominated once again: 466 titles
were published in English, 148 titles in German, 24 in French.
Compared with the year 2001, the National Library of the
Czech Republic has registered a significant increase in the
number of titles in Slovak (108 titles compared with 43 in the
previous year) and a decline in the Polish language production
(9 titles compared with 23 the year before). Among other
languages registered last year were e.g. 4 books in Dutch,
2 in Japanese and Esperanto, one title in Chinese, Classical
Greek, Old Slavonic and Ukrainian. The range of untraditional
languages has narrowed compared with previous years,
while at the same time registering a decrease in quantity.
The share of fiction in last year’s total book production in the
Czech Republic has amounted to 25 % (3605 titles) - a slight
drop compared with the year before. In children’s literature,
on the other hand, the continuous increase in the number of
published titles has been maintained. This increase has
become especially visible in the structure of the Czech book
production within the past several years. In absolute figures
the amount of 586 titles has been reached (with 575 children’s
titles published in 2001). The share of children’s literature
on the total book production has remained practically
unchanged. Once again it amounted to approximately 4%.
The share of school and university textbooks has slightly
exceeded 11% (1578 titles); in comparison with the year
before it is a small decrease both share-wise and in
absolute numbers (12% or 1750 titles in the year 2001). The
comparison of these data in the past five years is shown in
TABLE V.
TABLE V
Comparison of the Number of Published Titles According
to Selected Types of Literature between 1998-2002
2002 2001 2000 1999 1998
Fiction 3 605 3 726 3 281 3 562 3 432
Children’s Books 586 575 579 525 400
School & University Textbooks 1 578 1 750 1 400 1 549 1 676
Source: National Library of the Czech Republic
Translations
In 2002 translations constituted approximately a third of the
total Czech book production, which still makes the Czech
Republic, alongside e.g. the Baltic states or Hungary, count
among the highest-producing countries in the world (to compare
the “incomparable”: in Great Britain the share of translations
on the total book production has amounted to about
2-3% in recent years). Very little has changed in terms of
quantity. A total of 4342 translated titles has been published,
331 of which were translations of multilingual publications
(compared with 4352 / 429 the year before). Last year Czech
publishers have offered the readers translations from a total
of 44 languages.
The three most often translated languages have remained
the same since 1990. English is still dominant, with more
than half of all published translations originating in English
(close to 54%). Despite a long-term drop, translations from
German have more or less retained the position from the
previous year. French has once again registered third at
some distance.
A dynamic growth in the quantity of translated titles has
occurred in Slovak (having grown almost fourfold). Also the
number of translations from Russian has practically doubled.
Polish too has scored among the most often translated
Slavonic languages in the Czech Republic last year. Translations
from other Slavonic languages, on the other hand,
remain quite infrequent in the long term, with the total
amount having changed very little, usually reaching about
20 titles each year. In 2002 4 works have been translated
from Slovene and Serbian, 3 from Croatian, 2 from Bulgarian
and 1 from Ukrainian.
Languages of other major cultural regions, translations from
which were the most numerous on Czech book shelves in
the year 2002, included Italian (59 published titles) and Spanish
(32 published titles). It can be said that the situation was
very similar to that of the previous year, with 64 translations
from Italian and 38 from Spanish. Works translated from the
Dutch (27 titles) and Scandinavian languages (Swedish:
10 titles, Norwegian: 8 titles, Danish and Finnish: each with
6 titles) have also scored relatively strongly in last year’s
Czech book production. Compared with the year 2001 there
has been a steep decline in the number of translations from
classical languages such as Latin (4 titles compared with 18)
and Classical Greek (2 titles compared with 13). TABLE VI
shows a quantification of translations from selected languages
in the course of the past five years.
TABLE VI
Number of Translated Books Published
in the Czech Republic between 1998-2002
2002 2001 2000 1999 1998
Total of which 4 342 4 352 3 910 4 088 3 881
from English 2 329 2 340 2 088 2 118 1 889
from German 982 991 927 1 106 1 228
from French 225 227 201 192 199
from Slovak 116 32 49 34 22
from Polish 67 71 63 67 48
from Russian 50 36 41 33 30
Source: National Library of the Czech Republic
Summary
Available information concerning publishing activities in the
Czech Republic in the past year confirm that books - despite
objective problems and obstacles (floods, small book market)
and subjective complaints and lamentations of most of
the Czech book market’s top players - still count among
important cultural activities in the Czech Republic. This fact
is supported by international statistics, which place the
Czech Republic among the top 15 countries in the world
regarding the number of published titles, with a place in the
elite 10 where the number of published titles per 10 000
inhabitants is concerned.
Jaroslav Císař
(jaroslav.cisar@volny.cz)
Association of Czech Booksellers and Publishers
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