In Books in the Turkish Stand in Frankfurt Book Fair, Turkish columnist Doğan Hızlan reports on Finland's neat marketing ploy at the just-finished 2014 Frankfurt Int'l Book Fair:

I also learned that in Finland there are 2.2 million saunas. They have carried this widespread sauna culture to the book fair. Reading sessions are being held in public saunas in Frankfurt. A Finnish author could bust into any sauna . . .

. . . he or she chooses and read to the people inside for five to 10 minutes. Whether . or not the writer does this naked is up to them.

What's more, a fire truck transformed into a sauna goes around several districts of the city. In the truck, young poets recite their poems and then go into the sauna with their readers to continue their poetry conversation. It sounds quiet interesting.

Perhaps China's marketeers can learn from this. For future int'l book fairs in Frankfurt, London, New York or wherever, how about arranging something similar -- e.g., have translators bu[r]st into local karaoke joints and read out contemporary texts translated from the Chinese?