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The history of National Book Store can be traced back to the 1930s. [1] However, the company has been formally established in 1942. Before the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, José Ramos and Socorro Cáncio-Ramos, rented a small-corner space of a Haberdashery situated at the foot of Escolta Bridge in Santa Cruz, Manila.
Anvil Publishing, Inc., is the publishing arm of National Book Store.It publishes print books, e-books, and audiobooks. Anvil is a nationwide book dealer to network servicing dealers in the Philippines which includes National Book Store (Anvil's parent company), Goodwill Book Store, Rex Book Store, and Solidaridad.
The National Book Development Board, abbreviated as NBDB, is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Education formed through Republic Act No. 8047 or the Book Publishing Industry Development Act, which was responsible for promoting the continuing development of the book-publishing industry in the Philippines, with the active participation of the private sector.
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Dominador Buhain. Rex Book Store, Inc. (RBSI), stylized REX Book Store, is an educational book publisher and bookstore chain in the Philippines.It was incorporated in 1950 [1] and established branches in the provincial cities [2] of Angeles City, Bacolod, Baguio, Basco, Cabanatuan, Cagayan de Oro, Calapan, Cebu City, Dasmariñas, Davao City, General Santos, Iloilo City, Legazpi, Naga, Tacloban ...
Typographic printing in the Philippines was indigenous, not imported from other countries it was recognized by Wenceslao Retana as "the semi-invention" of the press in the country. In 1625, the press open up at the Colegio de Santo Tomás , soon became a university, and had since been known as the UST Press.
When the National Book Awards set out on its maiden voyage in 1981, there were very few quality books being published in the Philippines. Four decades later, hundreds of Philippine books are marvelously written, beautifully designed, professionally published, and widely read. These are the treasures yielded by our patrimony of letters.
The collections of the National Library of the Philippines consist of more than 210,000 books; over 880,000 manuscripts, all part of the Filipiniana Division; more than 170,000 newspaper issues from Metro Manila and across the Philippines; some 66,000 theses and dissertations; 104,000 government publications; 3,800 maps and 53,000 photographs. [14]