Reorganization of the Siberian divisions of Printing House « Nauka » in the 1990s: experiments and problems of survival

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Библиосфера. 4 / 2014

The first attempt to reconstruct the chronicles of transforming the regional publishing, printing and bookselling structures subordinated to the capital academic Publishing House «Nauka» was undertaken. The complexity of the study is due to the fragmentation of sources. Most of the documents presented in this paper were identified in the regional enterprises current archives presented by their heads. Frequent change of companies’ names and their executives also hindered the materials searching. Based on the analysis of this information one can restore the sequence of reorganizations in the 1990s and put into scientific circulation documents, which make it possible to judge some results and consequences of reforms. References in the article reflect the original titles of documents available to authors. Transformations had to find the optimal structural and management schemes, which could reduce the production cost of scientific editions under complicated economic conditions. For this purpose in early 1990s a series of structural reorganization to join publishing, printing and book-selling units of Publishing House «Nauka», both in Moscow and in regions, was carried on. In Novosibirsk in 1995 the Siberian publishing, printing and bookselling company «Nauka» as a subsidiary production unit of «Nauka» Akademizdattsentr of RAS was created on the base of the Siberian Branch of «Nauka» publishing house, Academic printing office № 4 and the Siberian Branch of «Akademkniga» wholesale-retail. However, inspection of the combined entity showed low efficiency of its activity and by the end of the decade the processes of separation and returning to the same structural scheme under new names: Siberian Publishing House «Nauka», Siberian printing company «Nauka», regional bookseller company «Akademkniga» - were launched.

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