Employees of tax militia Obolonsky district of Kiev confiscated from unregistered printing on the street Frunze 4300 copies of the new book by Boris Akunin”s “World Theatre”. In the office printing, in addition to printed copies were detected devices for cutting and pasting of books, printing adhesive and 9,5 thousand cardboard covers for this book.
also seized more than 900 already prepared for gluing and cutting blocks of the book. “Now all these books and printing equipment are under arrest. The court must decide what to do with all this. The books are likely to be destroyed” - the officer said the press service of tax police of Kiev Makara.
Russian writer Grigory Chkhartishvili (pseudonym Boris Akunin) was born May 20, 1956 in Georgia. Since 1958 lives in Moscow. He studied history and philology department of the Institute of Asia and Africa, Moscow State University, became a scholar. Since October 2000, is engaged in fiction. Author of the book “The Writer and Suicide”, novels “The Adventures of Erast Fandorin,” “The Adventures of Pelagia,” “The Adventures of Master.” In his novels and film, “The Turkish Gambit”, “Azazel”, “councilor”, “Pelagia and the White Bulldog”. Books by Boris Akunin translated into 35 languages.
In Russian publishing house “Zakharov, which owns the rights to publish works by Boris Akunin, was told that this is not the first case of illegal printing of books of the author.
“In Russia, this practice has long ceased, but in Belarus and Ukraine are still thriving,” - said the director of publishing Irina rich. According to her publisher is trying to fight the illegal production of books by Boris Akunin is not the first year. “We sell many copies in the Ukraine - mostly paperbacks - at prices lower than in Moscow or St. Petersburg in an attempt to teach readers to buy the license book. When a person sees two identical books of one author - a cheaper and more expensive than other , he must understand that cheap book will be poor quality, “- explained Mrs. Rich.
Boris Akunin himself said that the illegal distribution of its products causing financial damage to the publisher and harmful to his reputation: “Last year, Ukrainian police have confiscated copies issued without the knowledge of the publishing house” Zakharov “my novel” The Falcon and the swallow. “I was outraged because the quality of these books is terrible - they are printed with errors on poor paper and bad cover. ”
Meanwhile, domestic publishers are confident that the fight against the illegal distribution of printed materialsd58is practically impossible. “We can not stand next to each printing all day and watch what they print. Several years ago we thought to put on the books, such as holograms, as the licensed disc, but later abandoned this idea because it”s too much would have raised the value of literature . the illegal publication of books can only be tackled by police, “- said the director of the publishing house” Summit Book “Igor Stepurin. According to him, often counterfeited untwisted book authors, as well as various educational literature.
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