This year the fair attracted over 250 participants from 21 countries, encompassing 12 special exhibitions and two parallel projects: the Antique Book Fair, The flavor of the book cover. Domestic individual binding XIX the XX-th centuries exhibition and also a diversified events program aimed both at professionals, and amateurs. Conferences, round tables, seminars, symposiums, open discussions, meetings with authors, professional awards ceremonies, film displays, opening days are taking place within the fairs framework on a daily basis.
Supporting cultural forums of such level, the Publishing program invariably offers public its own conceptual exhibition displays. This time the exhibition of the Publishing program, devoted to its new book series First publication, and to the competition with the same name for museum professionals, has occupied the entire ground floor of the CHA as a prologue to the program of non/fiction special projects. Staged in the form of the Museum of the First Publication , the exposition shows materials used in three books Omsk sensation, Egorevsk Wonders and Heavens of Kenozerje by means of various ways of museum exhibitions: from the traditional under glass display to interactive software and ultramodern media presentations.