News of the book market and electronic book publishing from Vladimir Kharitonov The American market is growing, but not all. The German market stagnates and nervous. California universities abandoned Elsevier magazines. But the main event of the book industry in Russia in February is, of course, a price war against all that Ozon declared: read about all this in the next issue of our constant section “Books, Money, Eight Bits”, which is conducted by Vladimir Kharitonov.

Acquaintance with the Long list of the National Bestseller Prize Dmitry Samoilov, the constant author of Gorky and a member of the jury of the National Bestseller, analyzes the texts that are included in the long list of the prize in 2019. In today's issue-“Stone Girl Water” by Marina Ahmedova, “Ghost” Alexander Snegirev and “Kalechina-Malychina” Evgenia Nekrasova. Marina Akhmedova. Stone girl water.

Sergey Sergeev about the best book about Slavophiles In Soviet times, studying the works and ideas of the “Moscow Slavs”, for obvious reasons, was not easy, but even after the complete elimination of ideological obstacles to a full -fledged generalized work on this topic, written by Russian scientists, did not appear. But the translation appeared: at the request of Gorky, Sergey Sergeyev talks about the book just published and the best of its kind “In the Circle of Conservative Utopia.

Book in Pavel Fedotov’s painting “Fresh Cavalier” An official frozen in a comically proud pose with an order on a greasy robe a la a Roman toga and curlers on his head that cartoonishly resemble a laurel wreath. The first completed oil painting by Pavel Fedotov, “Fresh Cavalier,” is a textbook subject of school descriptive essays and an indispensable exhibit on sightseeing tours of the Tretyakov Gallery.