The book market in the age of digitalisation: foreign and domestic realities

This article examines some realities of the book market in Russia and a number of foreign countries. It is argued that libraries, as the main subject of the book market in the era of digitalisation, are looking for new ways to offer their content to the public, to make readers even more interested in their holdings and collections. The author analyses the state and prospects of the book market in the USA, the UK, Ireland and the Russian Federation. Analyses the state of samizdat (self-publishing) and e-books in the Russian Federation. Exam- ples of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies by Russian book services and publishers are given. It is concluded that the book publishing industry is actively developing in the conditions of digitalisation in the interests of the reading public and the library industry.