Book Industry No. 7 (159) October 2018

Is the book industry ready for the calls of the digital era to which the reader is pushing us? Will electronic and audiobook be transformed by the book industry? How do traditional bookstores and the Internet trade market feel? What are the possible points of growth in the book market of Russia? These and other issues were discussed by the leading experts of the book industry as part of the XXXI Moscow International Book Exhibition-Fair. Read the material - Book market in Russia: calls of the digital era.

Evgeny Kapyev, General Director of the Eksmo publishing house, and Guzel Yakhin, the author of the bestsellers “Zuleikha opens” and “My children” took part in the discussion taking place as part of the XXXI MMKVI. The topic of discussion: “Writer as a profession of dreams, or how to make Russia the birthplace of the best world authors?”

Starting from this issue, the editors launches a cycle of publications entitled Academy of Book Business. New reality of the retail book trade. It is opened - Evgeny Kapyev, General Director of the Eksmo publishing house and Anatoly Norovyatkin, Director of the distribution of the Eksmo Publishing House.

September was extremely rich in literary and professional contests and prizes-image of the book, a prize named after H.-K. Andersen, who for the first time in 42 years, received Russian illustrator Igor Oleinikov. And, finally, the long-awaited ceremony of awarding the professional skill contest “Examiner-2018”, held on the eve of the opening of MMKVVI. Sergei Stepashin opened the award ceremony and declared the winners in the nomination “Event of the Year”. The President of the Russian Book Union with humor noted that the award was named so because it was established back in 2012, when he headed the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. And since then, every year a revision of book cases and projects has been carefully carried out. Sergei Vadimovich emphasized: “When working in our industry, it is necessary to be able to submit, to sell, and show, and present a book. This is art. Both professional and creative. Therefore, the “Examiner” award, of course, is awarded exclusively for business. ”

Also in the heading, read the material following the results of the V International Congress of Translators of Fiction.

Alpina meets the 20th anniversary of the fullest and well-deserved awards. The company was recognized as the Publishing House of the Year, and Alexei Ilyin was recognized as a professional of the year at the Avisor-2018 professional skill competition. About the day of today, technologies for working on projects, evaluating their effectiveness, as well as about the day of tomorrow, about Alpine as an educational company, we are talking with its founder and permanent leader Alexei Ilyin. Read the interview: Help people become the best version of themselves.

In 2018, it turned 75 since the revival of the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate.
About what the magazine lives today, how the publishing house of the Moscow Patriarchate is developing, Bishop Nikolai Baskikhinsky told readers of the Book Industry in an interview with the Book must be defended.

What are the Russian publishers ready to offer in the framework of this galloping digitalization? How do they evaluate its potential and consequences for the Russian education system? The conference The role of electronic books and technologies in the digital development of Russia was devoted to these issues. And today, “Ki” offers to get acquainted with the main theses of the event.

Anna Shcherbakova, head of the department of trademarketing and merchandizing Eksmo Publishing House, and Oleg Pokrovsky, the head of the Franchise “Territory” project took part in an interview with Territory - a modern format of a bookstore for each of us. ”

Frankfurt Book Fair in October celebrates its 70th anniversary. For this important reason, Olga Ro prepared the material: The course on Frankfurt: we are looking for trends, we buy brands