The 2008 Contest for Beautiful Hungarian Books competition was organized by The Hungarian Publishers and Booksellers Association for books which were produced in Hungary, or an ethnic Hungarian printing house and distributed in bookshops in 2008. The award-giving ceremony opened in the Cultural Center of Aranytíz on 4 June 2009.
Several publications of the Gyula-based Dürer Printing House were awarded:
Popular science
Prize
Zsolt Kalotás: Körös-Maros Nemzeti Park (Alexandra Publishing House)
Prize
János Kubassek: Útkeresők Magyar utazók és földrajzi felfedezők (Kossuth Publishing House)
special prize from László Sólyom, President of the Hungarian Republic
Certificate
János Gyurgyák: Magyarország története képekben (Osiris Publishing House)
The 2008 Contest for Beautiful Hungarian Books competition was organized by The Hungarian Publishers and Booksellers Association for books which were produced in Hungary, or an ethnic Hungarian printing house and distributed in bookshops in 2008.