Нижполиграф
"Nizhpoligraf" is a publishing house located in Nizhny Novgorod. It is a leading regional producer of printed materials.
In 1905, the Rukavishnikov merchant dynasty funded the construction of a modernist-style publishing house. The two-story building was designed by architect P.A. Dombrovsky. In the 1960s, two upper floors were added.
After the revolution, interest in the building was special - in the center of the city, with huge squares. A job was found for it: in 1922, printing presses from all of Nizhny were assembled. They were supplemented with Suvorin's "Novoye Vremya" presses brought all the way from St. Petersburg. Thus, the printing house known to all Nizhny Novgorod residents appeared.
From the sixties, the printing house bore the name "Gorkovskaya Pravda", later its old familiar name was returned to it. Along with the change of name, they actively took up the printing of newspapers.
The total circulation of newspapers produced at "Nizhpoligraf" in the seventies was more than 1 million copies per day.
Now the main type of publications of "Nizhpoligraf" is books. The figure is astronomical - 1,500,000 books per month. At the very beginning of its printing history, the printing house specialized in books, and only then turned to printing newspapers.
50% of the total output consists of book production: 12.5 million copies in hardcover, 2.2 million in softcover, and 5.8 million in the form of brochures. 49.8% of the products are newspapers: in 2007, 70.5 million copies of newspapers were printed, worth 72 million rubles.
Анализ издательства
"Livebook" — a Russian independent book publishing house. It was founded in January 2004 in Moscow by Maria Aksenova, an editor and public figure, and Grigory Kovalev, a lawyer and entrepreneur.
Like Book is an imprint of the Eksmo-AST publishing group, which nevertheless adheres to an independent editorial policy. The publishing house specializes in popular foreign fiction for young adults, known as Young Adult.
Like Book aims to introduce new names to the Russian reader and help young people find books that resonate with their spirit. The publishing house is focused on the generation that grew up on social media.
The publishing policy of Livebook involves publishing selected contemporary Russian and foreign fiction, informal non-fiction books, as well as heavily illustrated conceptual publications. Particular attention is paid to ironic, absurdist, humorous literature, and playful texts. The publishing house deliberately publishes no more than 60 new titles per year to ensure the quality of books and maximum completeness of information support for each new title.
Books published by Like Book have already won awards, films are being made based on them, and they are widely discussed on the internet after being read. The publishing house's assortment includes a wide variety of works: from classic literature such as "451 degrees Fahrenheit," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," and "Flowers for Algernon," to unusual and complex books about youth, such as "Beyond the Rainbow," "The 9th Life of Louis Drax," "Happy Girls Don't Die," and "Hikikomori."
Like Book's books are primarily intellectual literature for teenagers who have grown beyond childhood and are interested in deep questions of self-discovery and finding their place in the world.