Paul Goble
Staunton, Oct. 1 – Ninety percent of the machinery used to print books in the Russian Federation comes from abroad and because of sanctions, Russian publishing firms are unable to keep the machines operating. So far, this has led to an increase in book prices by almost 20 percent, but in time, it may mean that Russia won’t be able to publish books at all.
According to Anatoly Baranov, the editor of the Forum-MSK portal, the situation is especially dire in a country which styles itself the most interested in reading in the world and is one that the shuttering of websites by the Kremlin means that there is no chance e-books will compensate for the decline in the printing of physical books.
In a brief analysis of the situation, Baranov points out that unlike many other technologies, there are few domestic alternatives in book publishing but because printing equipment is numbered, it is almost impossible to do an end run around sanctions (forum-msk.org/material/news/18069049.html).
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