Book Expo 1Malaysia 2012

Book Expo 1Malaysia 2012 is the first event in Malaysia which gather and give an award to the publisher. This event is going to be held 1-6 February 2012 at Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) at Jalan Sultan Putra. This event have been launching by Ministry of High Education, YB DATO’ SERI MOHAMED KHALID NORDIN. The event is organized by “Yayasan Pembangunan Buku Negara” (YPBN) , “Persatuan Kontraktor Buku Malaysia” (PKBM ) with The Oxford Centre for Excellence (OXCELL),United Kingdom and other non-governmental organization (NGO) book publisher in Malaysia. Moreover, this event have been support by the Ministry of High Education,Ministry of Information Communication and Multimedia and ministry of Women, Families , Community Development and it make the highest achievement for them. The event have a huge coverage to attract and persuade public to read more books.

The purpose of this event is made a tradition to the public to read more books. In addition it going to help all the publisher, writers the sellers and others team production to take the opportunity to seek an attention from the public about their products.

They also want to change the mindset of the public to attend the event and read at least a book. The public also will get an opportunity to get interaction with the publisher and the writers also.

The most interesting of this event will be having a session which all the publisher and writer will get an awards. However this year is the first year of this event been held so there is not so many of awards going to give away. The hoping of this award will encourage all the publisher and writers to gain more creative ideas and produce a good product.

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