Russian Book market bursting, but sales stagnant

“The Russian book market is overflowing, and only high-quality and well-printed books are in demand,” Russia’s book publishers are saying at the 18th Moscow international book fair.

Its opening on September 7, with 3,000 firms demonstrating more than 100,000 publications in dozens of languages, was attended by guests from 50 countries. Visitors are crowding round de luxe editions of classics, new revelations about Stalin and Napoleon, provocative pamphlets by politicians, books on culinary art and beauty treatment, esoteric literature, and textbooks.

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