Books are said to be a person’s best friend as when there is no one to guide us, our books are always there to show us the right path in life. They always direct us to follow the moral values and principles of life. Everyone has a book which helped to change your life. A book never gives wrong advice to its reader and every book we read has a message to learn. In fact, a recent study shows that reading books has a positive impact on the brain.

World Books and Copyrights Day 2021 Theme, Celebration Ideas, Activities, Slogans, Essay

When we read a book or listen to a story, the brain releases certain hormones that allow us to turn the story into our own idea and experience. This is known as ‘neuro coupling’. The brain releases ‘happy hormone’ and we start perceiving the story as our own and as a result, all the areas of the brain are activated in this process.

Books are a great source of knowledge for us and they play an important role in the lives of students .

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What is ‘Copyright’?

Copyright refers to the legal right of the owner of intellectual property. In simpler terms, copyright is the right to copy. This means that the creator of the intellectual property reserves the right to restrict its product from being copied without his/her consent. Under Copyright law, a work is considered as original if it is created using one’s own creativity without any duplication.

Copyright is generally restricted to ideas that can be written down in a physical form or are tangible. When a person creates an original work that can be compiled in a physical format, it automatically gets copyrighted and only the creator reserves the exclusive rights to use or transfer the work. In this case, audio-visual work, sound recordings, and musical compositions, books, paintings, etc. can be copyrighted.

Introduction of World Books and Copyrights Day

The World Books and Copyrights Day is also called as World Books Day. The basic idea to celebrate April 23 as the World Books and Copyrights Day is that this day marks the birth and death anniversary of many well-known writers, including Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Maurice Druon, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Haldor Kiljan Laxness, Manuel Mejía Vallejo, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and William Shakespeare.

Keeping the significance of this day in mind, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s General Conference held in Paris in 1995 chose this date to pay tribute to books, the authors who wrote them, and the copyright laws that protect them.


World Books Capital 2021

The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, named Tbilisi (Georgia) World Book Capital for the year 2021, based on the recommendation of the World Book Capital Advisory Committee, which met in Switzerland in June, 2019.

Around the slogan Ok. So your next book is…? the programme focuses on the use of modern technologies as powerful tools for the promotion of reading among young people.
The programme comprises several important, large-scale and sustainable activities involving libraries and a book festival for children, a state-of-the-art digital project for transforming books into games, and the rebuilding of the first Georgian publishing house.

The Advisory Committee nominating the World Book Capital city is made up of representatives of the International Publisher's Association (IPA), the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and UNESCO.



World Books Day 2021 Theme

World Book Day 2021 theme is 'share a story. ' The day aims to changes lives through a love of books and shared reading. This year's theme is in response to the coronavirus pandemic, encouraging children to share a story with those that they live with.

Interesting Fun Facts about World Book & Copyright Day

  • The Library of Alexandria contained 500,900 great works of literature, science and other works, and was partially destroyed in 48 AD.
  • Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440, bringing the book into the Industrial Age.
  • The Gutenberg Bible was the first product made by Gutenberg’s printing press.
  • Books were written on papyrus in Egypt, wax plates in Rome and on silk in China.
  • The earliest surviving book is from 2400 BC and was found in Egypt.
  • In 1621, the first English-language newspaper was published; The Corante.
  • In 1653, the first American library was established in Boston.
  • In 1709, the authors received their first legal protection when England introduced the Copyright Act.
  • In 1935, IBM introduces the first electric typewriter.
  • The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien has sold more than 100 million copies.
  • The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis have sold between 50 and 100 million copies.
  • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes has sold more than 500 million copies.
Famous Quotes and Slogans on Books and Reading
  1. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.  ~Mark Twain
  2. Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend.  Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx
  3. A good book should leave you…slightly exhausted at the end.  You live several lives while reading it.  ~William Styron
  4. I find television to be very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.  ~Groucho Marx
  5. You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.  ~Paul Sweeney