The Russian ebook market more than
doubled in 2012, to 250 million rubles ($8 million), but remains just 1% of
market. Some 95% of ebooks downloaded are pirate editions.
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The Read Legally public awareness
campaign was launched to discourage Russians from downloading pirated ebooks,
equating it with stealing from authors.
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More News from PP:
An infographic based on the World Culture
Score Index shows that people in India, Thailand and China read for 8-10
hours per week, nearly double most people in the West.
Hogarth announces The Hogarth
Shakespeare: new prose versions of Shakespeare's plays, retold by bestselling
novelists from around the world.
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From the Archives:
Self publishing might be hot now,
but under the Soviets in 1992, writer Andrei Kurkov had no other choice. He
discusses what he learned and why surrealism suits Russian writers.
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Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Russia’s Ebook Market Doubles in 2012, But Still Plagued by Piracy
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