All about the great book and film auction at the Revolution Memorial

With prices for all budgets, between 10 and 150 pesos, the eighteenth edition of the Granny end of Books and Films at the Memorial to the Revolution, where you can buy copies from 107 publishing houses and 70 distributors.

Under the motto “Save a book, don’t let them destroy it”, the big auction, organized by the Ministry of Culture and the Read Freedom Brigade AC, will be held. from July 31 to Sunday, August 4at the Revolution Monument, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The opening ceremony was led by the general director of the Greater Community Festivals of the capital’s Ministry of Culture, Argel Gomez Concheiro, who pointed out that this edition breaks a record “with 210 exhibitors, distributors, publishers and booksellers with books for all audiences,” he said.

For us it is very important that the book reaches people; that it will be a close, daily subject for society, because the book is a friend and it is a brother,” said Gómez Concheiro,

There are 210 exhibitors, 107 publishing houses, 70 distributors and 33 second-hand bookstores in 12 tents with 370 stands in the Plaza de la República to sell novels, popular science titles, stories, children’s literature, books offer historical, comics, biographies. DVD movies and music in various formats have not been sold in bookstores and generate high storage costs.

Books and Movies at low cost in Revolución

During the event, Marina Taibomember of the Freedom to Read Brigade, invited the public to give other writers new opportunities with the ability to obtain copies at a very low cost and emphasized that this place has become a an important source of literary inspiration for the life and inhabitants of the capital and visitors to the city.

I think books find you, you just can’t see them. There are many people who are stuck with ‘this is the one I want to read!’, and just look for the one they want to read, but they miss the opportunity in the books they find on the way,” said Marina, times. before reading the stands, in the company of Paco Ignacio Taibo II, General Director of the Economic Culture Fund, one of the publishing labels participating, together with Ediciones Pentagrama, Penguin Random House, Línea de Letras Panini, Instituto Mora, Educal, Editorial Santillana , Editors Mexicanos Unidos and editor Sexto Piso, among others.

This is the second year that two editions of the Big Book and Film Auction have been held, both during the holiday seasons, so that residents of the capital and visitors from other groups can. take advantage of the sale.

The 17th Great Books and Film Auction, which took place between 27 and 31 March, was a great success by achieving call more than 170 thousand people.

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