Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Russia’s Ebook Market Doubles in 2012, But Still Plagued by Piracy

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.
The Read Legally public awareness campaign was launched to discourage Russians from downloading pirated ebooks, equating it with stealing from authors.
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.
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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