BOOK PUBLISHING AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE REGIONS: PROBLEMS AND DECISIONS

The meeting of the section “Russian Book  Publishing: Regional Specifics, Channels  of Promotion,  Library Collections Formation”,  attended by theorists and practitioners of book  business: publishers, writers, booksellers, librarians, and readers, took place within the framework  of the “Book Siberia” International Festival and  the III Regional Book Forum with international  participation “The Information Society:  New Priorities of Book Culture”, held at SPSL SB  RAS on September 12–14, 2019.  There is a high degree of uneven development of territories in the Russian Federation compared with the majority of developed countries. This inequality is mainly determined by each region specifics, characterized by historically based specialization, particular geographical position, as well as innovation potential. The article presents the main problems of regional book industries: book publishing and dissemination, formation of book collections and brining books to the reader, stated by the discussion organizers – the authors of the paper, based on the participants’ opinions. Specialists discussed problems that exist in their field on the places and in Russian book culture in general, defined possible variants of cooperation of the process participants, perspective mechanisms of book industry functioning and developing for to create the united system of regional book publishing and distribution.

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