Eksmo

Eksmo (Russian: Эксмо) is one of the largest publishing houses in Russia.[1][2] Eksmo and AST (which it later acquired in 2012) together publish approximately 30% of all Russian books.[3]

Eksmo
Founded1991
Country of originRussia
Headquarters locationMoscow
Key peopleOleg Novikov, general director
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.eksmo.ru
Moscow International Book Fair 2011. Vadim Panov at Eksmo booth

Established in 1991 as a small book-selling company, Eksmo gradually developed into a major player in the Russian market, discovering and developing detective-novel authors such as Darya Dontsova and Alexandra Marinina, as well as publishing works by Tatyana Tolstaya, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Tatiana Vedenska, and Viktor Pelevin. Eksmo has become especially successful as a publisher of Russian science fiction and fantasy, with writers like Sergey Lukyanenko, Yuri Nikitin, Vasily Golovachev, Nick Perumov, Vera Kamsha, Vadim Panov and Tony Vilgotsky.[4]

Eksmo introduced Russian readers to Artemis Fowl, a series of children's books by Irish writer Eoin Colfer. They also publish Dmitri Yemets' Harry Potter-derived Tanya Grotter series.

Controversy

In 2011 Eksmo received criticism for publishing books which glorify Stalin and his henchmen, such as "Renaissance of Stalin", "Beria, the best manager of the 20th century" (Берия — лучший менеджер XX века, 2008) by S. Kremlev, and "Handbook of a Stalinist" (Настольная книга сталиниста, 2010) by Yuri Zhukov. A group of writers and artists, including Alexander Gelman signed an open letter questioning its editorial policy.[5] Oleg Novikov, the director of the publishing house, responded that he felt obligated to cater to the taste of his readers, and not to censor them.[6]

gollark: Wait, that book is popular so people actually know about it, what vaguely ridiculously esoteric books have I read...
gollark: Er. Hmm. Rincewind?
gollark: Imagine: someone tells you "yes I really like [CHARACTER] or [EVENT]". If you have no idea what book they're from or any idea about it, you may have to embarrass yourself and say you don't know! But with a way to search all books ever (okay, you can't do that with just public domain ones however bees) you can have vague surface level knowledge of something on demand!
gollark: I'm aware of that, but they don't have a convenient search thing.
gollark: Idea: download all public domain books and index them for search such that people can conveniently look up things on demand and appear to have read and know about them, for pretension purposes

See also

References
  1. Anastasia Vasilyeva (October 4, 2007). "Eksmo Consolidates the Market" (in Russian). RBC. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
  2. "Top 20 Russian Publishers" (in Russian). Rbcdaily.com. April 10, 2006. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
  3. "Books' Obstruction" (in Russian). Sostav.ru. October 16, 2007. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
  4. Publishers Weekly. Global Publishing Leaders 2012: Eksmo
  5. "Private correspondent (Russian)". Chaskor.ru. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  6. Станислав Львовский · 13/04/2011 (2011-04-13). "Openspace.ru — Activism, Stalinism and Capitalism". Os.colta.ru. Retrieved 2014-03-07.


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