That may change as Bangkok takes on the title of World Book Capital for 2013.
Oxford will submit its formal bid to become UNESCO World Book Capital in 2014 this week.
In the UK, World Book Day has always placed a great emphasis on children.
Every year thousands of parents have to help with a costume for their child for World Book Day.
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Mr Kempin also exerted pressure on IBM over the CD-Rom Encyclopaedia IBM World Book, which competed with Microsoft's Encarta.
Bill Gates "was really mad about the World Book deal", it was revealed.
The United Kingdom was one of the original supporters of the UNESCO resolution establishing World Book Capital as an annual designation.
World Book Day is an international day to encourage reading, promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).
World Book Day is the largest annual tribute to books, urging everyone, especially young people, to learn the joy of reading.
Thursday's article about one parent's struggle to get ready for World Book Day prompted many people to recount their own experiences.
The museum was due to open in 2014 but was postponed after the city failed to become Unesco World Book Capital City.
In 2007, a BBC poll for World Book Day voted Pride and Prejudice as the book most respondents could not live without.
Visitors to the World Book Day website were given a list of 10 books and asked which they had lied about reading.
The festival begins with a World Book Night event on 23 April.
We believe that Oxford should become UNESCO World Book Capital in 2014 because the entire bid is about creating a lasting legacy for Oxford and Oxfordshire.
World Book Day UK has been gradually growing each year to include more projects, such as Spread The Word, Quick Reads Initiative and Books for Hospitals.
World Book Capital is an annual title bestowed by UNESCO to a city in recognition of the outstanding quality of its programs and initiatives to promote books and reading.
Participants in other reality shows agree to similar restrictions: Patane got clearance to write his Real World book only after he jawboned an attorney filling in for MTV's vacationing regular lawyer.
Writer and publisher Lewis Davies, whose 1993 book Work, Sex and Rugby was voted the best book to describe Wales in the World Book Day campaign in 2003, is in favour.
Through these initiatives, World Book and Copyright Day is more relevant in the UK than ever before, with new technology and literacy issues now impacting at the heart of the democratic process.
But Gates shares Buffett's interest in the media world and even likes to joke that he has created a digital encyclopedia called Encarta that now outsells World Book, which is controlled by Buffett.
In this context, Minister Poghosyan underscored the successful impact of the designation of Yerevan as the World Book Capital in 2012 and invited the Director-General to attend the closing celebration on 10-11 December coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the first Armenian printed book in the country.
In a fast-moving world where technological innovation has brought new developments in e-books and online access to contents of books, UNESCO Secretary General Irina Bokova has maintained that in celebrating World Book Day, it is important to remember that there can be no book development without consideration for copyright, especially when digitization further exposes books to risks of illicit use.
Well, if the Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller List is any indication, consumers say one thing and do another.
The Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller List is powered by Iobyte Solutions, a firm that deals with such data.
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Mr. Smith believes his collection is the biggest, although he isn't in any world record book.
In addition, in many parts of the world illiteracy rates for women are well over 50 percent, according to the CIA World Fact Book.
But Gary McGraw, a security researcher and author of the virtual-world focused book Exploiting Online Games, says that Second Life won't be significantly affected by the ban.
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