Important Ministries

Ministry of National Resources 

Official Statistics Office

Hungary Central Statistical Office 

Trade Associations

Hungarian Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Association (MKKE)

Alliance of Hungarian Libraries and Information Institutes (IKSZ) 

Annual Book Fairs

Budapest International Book Festival held over 4 days in April. 

Translation Programmes

Hungarian Books and Translations Office provides grants for translation costs for foreign language publishing of Hungarian authors’ works.

Contact: applications@pim.hu 

VAT on Books

5% for books and 27% eBooks 

Fixed Book Price System

No

Statistics

Market report Hungary (PA, 2007) [link to download/view] 

Book market statistics (PA, 2017) [link to download/view]