They are publishers specialising in computing and in medical handbooks both professional and popular. Digital publishing Coming digital era is felt by everybody in Russian publishing. Our universities, academic institutes now have quite good telecommunications. Some publishing houses and firms from computer business started SD-ROM and multimedia publications. But this has not influenced STM publishing seriously.
Many publishing houses have plans to develop digital publishing.
But most of them consider such projects only as pilot for economic reasons. Prices Speaking about prices one can hardly imagine a more burning problem for any publisher. But prices in Russia are really a nightmare for every publisher. According to our professional weekly Book Review the average retail price for a book last year was 18.8 rouble or 72 cents per copy. It was mentioned above that the prices in Russia are absolutely free and not fixed.