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Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa), Menase Kifle
29 October, 2007
A book holding signatures and visions of 30 million individuals and companies, launched at the Sheraton Addis on Thursday, hoped to be recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records Association by the end of June.
Publishers of the book weighing 500 kilograms with a size of 100 by 70 cm said at the launching event that the book is potentially fit for being recognized by the association for it surpasses by 440 kilograms the 60 kilogram one recorded on the list.
Gana Seb trading, the privately owned company publisher said it has gone the first necessary level approval for the application.
The publisher started the making with an initial allocated budget of 100 million birr in a bid to address citizens on changing the negative image of Ethiopia, an image that has been plagued with famine, into a more positive image and then changing that positive image into a practicality.
Misgana Gedle, owner of Gana Seb trading on the launching occasion said the venture was started in June this year and was honored by the signatures of 12 ambassadors, 10 organizations and high level religious leaders.
He said the purpose of the book was to realize the dreams and visions of each individual.
Guests at the launching event put their signatures and visions of their own on the book.
Among the signatories of the day were companies like Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia,World Vision, Motor and Engineering Company of Ethiopia (MOENCO) and many others.
Yetnebersh Nigussie, Public Relations of the publishing company told to the Daily Monitor that after recognition, the book would be donated to the national museum as a national heritage.
Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom is the book currently certified by Guinness World Records as the largest book in the world measuring five feet by seven feet, weighs approximately 60.5 kg, and has 112 pages. It costs $2000 to produce. It was published by Friendly Planet in December 2003.
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