Piecework literature sales fell 28% in February compared to the same month of 2022. In this respect Wrote The newspaper “Kommersant”, with reference to the message of the “LitRes” e-book reading service.
The company explained the trend as interest in the genre waned. Alpina Group CEO Alexei Ilyin estimated the sales decline in this category as 25%.
According to Olga Kiseleva, head of the editorial group of the Mann, Ivanov and Ferber publishing house (MIF), sales of business literature remained stable compared to 2022: “The difference from 2022 is less than 1%.
As stated in the Eksmo-AST publishing group, overall, by the end of 2022, the volume of book sales, excluding educational literature, increased by 10% in Russia. In the February report of the Russian Book Chamber aforementioned A decrease of 0.3% in the output of books and brochures in Russia in 2022.
In the second half of December, Russian President Vladimir Putin, signed A law in which small bookstores can receive government support until January 1, 2025.