Eksmo Competitors

LITRES.ru – is the group of companies, providing eBooks services (aggregator, distributor, wholesaler). LITRES is the Russian market leader and contains more than 120k Russian eBooks on board. Over 16 apps make the company be a leader in top grossing charts in App Store and Google Play among non gaming category. LITRES.ru has more than 23 million registered users and sold more than 30 million ebooks lifetime!

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AST (Russian: АСТ) is one of the largest book publishing companies in Russia. AST and its rival Eksmo together publish approximately 30% of all Russian books. The company is headed by Oleg Bartenev (Олег Бартенев). It owns a bookstores chain "Bukva" (Russian: Буква, lit. A Letter). Among AST partners are publishing companies Astrel, Zebra E, Molodaya Gvardiya, CenterCom, bookstores Moscow and Biblio Globus and online shops, such as Ozon.ru. In 2008 AST purchased Avanta+. It also owns comic book and manga publisher Comics Factory. The company was established in 1990 by Alexei Gertsev, Sergei Derevianko and Tatiana Derevianko as "Creative Cooperative Association AST" (Russian: Творческое кооперативное объединение «АСТ»). AST is an abbreviation meaning Alexei-Sergei-Tatiana. In 1993 the company was divided into AST itself, headed by Alexei Gertsev, and AST-PRESS.