OREANDA-NEWS. January 24, 2011. Starting this year Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan supplemented its financial statement with "information sector" component.

Financial Accounting and Economic Analysis Department employee Jahandar Gadirov has told that last year was successful for Azerbaijan’s media sector and total volume of its profits made over 14.1 million manats.

"Overall  number of book publishing industry in 2010 made 3.7 million manats which demonstrates 38.1% rise in this sphere in comparative prices. Profits from newspaper publications amounted to 2.6 million manats of total volume of profits (comparative rise 14.8%). Profits from magazine issues in 2010 rose 2.1 fold and amounted to 616.600 manats",- J. Gadirov noted.

In 2010 growth of ICT post and information sector was 32.1% and volume of profits- 1.230 bn manats.