Eksmo
| File:Eksmo logo.png | |
| Founded | 1991 |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | Russia |
| Headquarters location | Moscow |
| Key people | Oleg Novikov, general director |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
Publishing House “EKSMO” LLC is a Russian publishing company founded in 1991 by Alexander Krasovitsky, Oleg Novikov and Andrey Gredasov (the EKSMO brand appeared in 1993). The business began with wholesale trade in books, later Eksmo had its own printers and distribution. Thanks to the publication of Russian detectives (primarily novels by Danil Koretsky and Alexandra Marinina) in the late 1990s, Eksmo significantly increased its sales and became the basis of a large holding company, which included printing houses, bookstore chain "Bukvoed", publishing houses "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber", "Ventana-Graf", "Drofa" and others. In the 2010s, Oleg Novikov acquired AST publishing house, which, however, remained a formally independent structure. Eksmo is the largest publishing house in Russia, one of the largest publishers in Europe, and is in the world's top 50. It publishes books in all major genres (detectives, fiction, fantasy, classics, modern literature, poetry, books for children, non-fiction), cooperates with many popular Russian and foreign authors.
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.[1] 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.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Private correspondent (Russian)". Chaskor.ru. Archived from the original on 2019-09-11. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
- ^ Станислав Львовский (2011-04-13). "Openspace.ru — Activism, Stalinism and Capitalism". Os.colta.ru. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
 | This article about a comics publishing company is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |