Russian book publishers heart surgery The ban on the release of international bestsellers in the Russian Federation with the help of a summary – retelling without direct quotes. The newspaper wrote on Wednesday, February 15 “Kommersant”.
According to him, Eksmo-AST will publish especially Prince Harry’s memoirs in this format. Smart Reading will also publish its own version of this book.
A retelling of Prince Harry’s memoir “The Reserve” is expected to be released in audio and electronic formats on February 16, and later in print. The first print run will be 3,000 copies.
According to Eksmo CEO Evgeny Kapiev, the summary “will reflect the main ideas of the book without using quotes from the book – the author read the book in English and retell it in his own language.”
“Another version of the Backup summary in audiobook format from Smart Reading will be released on LitRes on February 15. They clarified that the book is being prepared at the request of the service, ”says the publication.
Kapiev noted that such a project is seen as “a start, which will help partially solve the problem of the availability of non-fiction innovations and as an alternative to compulsory licensing.” However, the newspaper writes that not all market participants saw the summary as a good move.
Abroad, “Spare” was released on January 10, 2023. Penguin Random House, which owns the rights, stopped working with the Russian market last year after it started. Military operations in Ukraine.
According to the law, citations can only be made for scientific, polemical, critical, informative and educational purposes.
Yulia Yarnykh, partner of Semenov & Pevzner, explained to Kommersant that in the event of a dispute, the Russian publisher would have to prove that the goals were exactly that and not entertaining.
“Eternal Spare”
Prince Harry’s memoirs are the first book descriptions of a British family member since A Life As She Was Told (a memoir published after the death of his mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car accident in 1997).
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“The title of the Prince’s autobiography directly screams his main pain – he is the eternal “spare”, always second only to his brother and future King, Prince William. Portal states that Harry talks about a lot of things, not just about himself but about his family as well. Reading Rate.
The memoir, co-written with journalist John Mehringer, received a lot of public backlash even before it was published, due to the anticipated revelations about the British royal family.
Separate fragments of the Prince’s memoirs were published by the British media in early January. They tell how Harry used drugs in his youth, how he lost his virginity, how he served in Afghanistan, killing 25 people according to him. Observers believe that the “Reserve” could be a blow to individual members of the British royal family, but a blow to the institution of the British monarchy as a whole.
More than 1.4 million copies were sold in the UK on the first day. Still, Harry has already gone from the most beloved member of the royal family to the most disliked – according to polls, two-thirds of those polled denounce his frankness.