Education is partially self-financed. Many students pay for their education. High Schools are quite free in forms of their activities and have various sources of sponsoring. Technological changes, new printing techniques helped them to develop their publishing activities. Another positive change is that the rise of titles published by UP s was not formed by the leading universities the Presses of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg universities but by the presses of other high schools and of regions of Russia.
Commercial publishers are the fourth group.
It is the type of the book but not the theme that is in the focus of their publishing programmes. Textbooks, readers, reference books and dictionaries on social sciences and humanities are published by them along with textbooks on math s and physics. Monographs can appear very rarely in their portfolio s . And one more important comment. Social sciences and humanities still prevail in the catalogues of commercial publishers.