Amazon has opened a section with books in Russian

The online store Amazon opened sections with books in Russian and in several other languages ​​of the world. Now in the largest online store, you can view book catalogs in 82 languages .

It should be noted that among all languages, Russian-language literature occupies a worthy 5th place (962 334 titles), second only to English-language (19,120,415), German-speaking (2,480,765), French-speaking (2,417,937) and Spanish-speaking (1,224,631) . More scarce catalogs in Italian (846,384) and Chinese (626,233).
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Both printed books and electronic copies are offered in Russian.

Officially, the opening of the Russian-language section was not announced. The head of the Russian representative office of Amazon, Arkady Vitruk, declined any comment, according to Vedomosti.

The newspaper also reports, citing its own sources, that in the spring of 2013, Amazon planned to open a store in Russia, was negotiating, but some of the major Russian publishers refused to cooperate. They referred to too tough terms of cooperation, which the American company insisted on.

Now Russian publishers are skeptical about the actions of Amazon: “The lack of a thoughtful and convenient interface in Russian, a wide range and competent promotion of Amazon in the domestic market does not allow us to seriously believe that the service can make healthy competition to other major players,” said the general director. Litres ”Sergey Anurev.