# Xmo, or Simplifying the book market
About some consequences of the takeover of "Azbuka-Atticus" by the publishing house "Eksmo" In early August, the Eksmo-AST publishing group, as Kommersant recently reported , acquired control of the third largest publishing group, Azbuka-Atticus. Thus, the president of Eksmo-AST, Oleg Novikov, concentrated the Russian commercial literature market in his hands. Read about the consequences of this event in the article by Vladimir Kharitonov.