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“There are book readers in Armenia, simply the reading scales are not satisfactory for us,” an Armenian literary critic said at a news conference on Tuesday.

According to literary critic Arqmenik Nikoghosyan, the fact that numerous copies of the 2000 books printed in Armenia make it through to libraries, with some of them enjoying 100 print-run consumption at bookstores, comes to prove that there are readers in the country.

“The [reading] scale is certainly not what we would desire, which is based on the value system, the social-psychological and moral atmosphere in our country. However the claims that we deal with a non-read generation are untrue,” the speaker said.

“Today over 70 percent of the readers who attend libraries or acquire books from bookstores are young men aged 18-35.”

In Arqmenik Nikoghosyan’s words, the world literature is the most popular among the readers.

“If the contemporary writers need to present their books or provide additional information on their works to attract readership, the world literature presents itself to the readers already advertised and evaluated,” the literary critic observed.

He also added that the books will cost less in Armenia when their sales increase in the country.