Visit To KL International Book Fair 2010!

Went to the Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair 2010 with my wife last Saturday. The book fair was amazing. It was huge.

All the big book publisher was there and there’s lots of great offer as well.

The Journey

We took the train at 11.40 am after more that 30 minutes waiting for it. While waiting for the train, I saw this writing on at the stairs. No wonder people don’t want to take the public transport. I think they need to upgrade it first before campaigning it to the public.

The Book Fair

We reached Putra station around 1 pm. There was lots of bus from some schools and maktab perguruan that was there for the book fair as well. There was 4 main hall plus 1 for Karangkraf and some at the front area that I don’t know what it is called. Anyway, the big publishers that were there, was Karangkraf (just imagine, 1 hall for themselves), Telaga Biru, Utusan and Grolier. I’ve registered as a StormReader member (under Telaga Biru) checkout my e-store.

When we reached there, we’re unsure to which hall that we want to go first so we decided to go to Hall 3. The deals was awesome, you can get up to 30% (if you’re a student) discount. Bought few books from here and continue our journey to Hall 2. In this hall, they have few big publication such as PTS, Grolier and Al-Hidayah. Los Copaque was there too and I took Upin & Ipin’s pictures for my son.

Below are some of the photos during the book fair.

Karangkraf Book Fair

It was nice that Karangkraf have their own hall for themselves. It was super packed. It was crazy… The best about the Karangkraf Hall is that they have their novel writers signing autograph for the fan and even Sheila Rusli was there to sign autograph for her recipe book’s fan. Below are some of the shot that was taken at the Karangkraf Book fair.

Even my wife bought the recipe book written by Sheila Rusli and asked her to sign an autograph.

Summary

The largest book fair that I’ve ever went. It was worth it. If I got more budget for the book fair, for sure I will buy more books.

The only issue that there isn’t much signage to direct people which way or where they should go or move. Sometimes, all of a sudden there’s someone restricting you from walking to certain area which we as a visitor didn’t know about because there’s no signage. Hope that they can improve on that.

Now, have to start reading the books….