At the same time, in terms of actual physical books, the market will decrease by 6% to 252 million copies. According to the Eksmo-AST group, the average price increase for books from January to August 2022 was about 25%. Among the key factors that led to the rise in prices of paper books was an increase in the cost of paper and printing services. Since the beginning of the year, the cost of printing services increased on average by 15-20% and paper — by 4-50%.
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