“Of course, the most affected were bookstores, the loss of offline book retail.
We estimate the total volume of losses for March-June as 10.5 billion rubles, we are talking about book products ... We estimate the total market losses at 12-13 billion rubles, "RIA Novosti quotes Oleg Novikov, vice president of the Russian Book Union. , who took part in an industry discussion at the Moscow International Book Fair.
He stressed that the union expects to restore last year's level of sales in bookstores by the end of this year.