As a result of the Russian attack on the Kyiv region on August 28, a warehouse in which books from the Readeat and Book networks were stored burned down. ua, as well as the publishing houses " According to preliminary estimates, more than 60 thousand copies were destroyed, and total business losses exceed 23 million hryvnia. Warehouse workers were not injured.
Readeat founder Dmitry Feliksov reported on Facebook that the drone hit directly the warehouse where Readeat, Book books were stored. ua and Ukrainian publishers. Due to the fire, orders were suspended on that day..
In another post, Feliksov noted that the team has already created an operational headquarters, is in contact with publishers and warehouse owners, and is rebuilding supply chains. Among the main tasks, he named the search for new warehouse solutions and mechanisms for compensation of losses..
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“Nothing can be saved. Everything burned down. So far they have extinguished it, but it is already clear that nothing can be saved,” Feliksov said in a commentary to Suspilny Kultury and added that more than 60 thousand copies were destroyed, and the estimated business losses exceed 23 million hryvnia.
According to the founder of Readeat, the priority now is to resume supplies and send orders to readers. At the same time, the company must record losses and damages and begin working on compensation for logisticians, publishers and book distributors.
Feliksov stressed that the Russian attack dealt a blow to the industry, which had just begun to recover from previous losses.. He called on the state to consider specific mechanisms to support book publishing, in particular public procurement of books, subsidies, preferential loans, tax holidays and targeted state and European grants.
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Book Network. ua reported that the entire stock of paper books from its online store was stored in the Novaya Poshta fulfillment warehouse, which was attacked by Russian drones.. A significant part of the goods, according to preliminary information, is damaged or destroyed.
In this regard, Book. ua has temporarily suspended accepting and shipping online orders for paper books. Only electronic publications are currently available on the site, and the company ended the Happy Hour promotion ahead of schedule. Physical bookstores Book. ua, where you can purchase paper books, continue to operate as normal.
“We will inform each client separately about the status of orders already placed.. We will share the rest of the details as soon as we have confirmed information,” wrote Book. ua.
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Among the affected publishing houses are Ouroboros, Osnovy and Vivat.. Ouroboros confirmed that their books were stored in the warehouse of partners Readeat and Book. ua, and the Osnovy publishing house reported that their books were in a warehouse in the Kyiv region.
“While we are waiting for official information about possible losses, orders are sent as usual from our reserve warehouse in another region,” noted Osnovy..
Vivat co-founder Yulia Orlova reported that the warehouse in Kyiv, where some of the publishing house’s books were stored, burned down. According to her, Vivat was moving stocks in advance, so they managed to transport some of the books to Lviv and replenish bookstores with them.
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At the same time, many new products and books by Ukrainian authors remained in the Kiev warehouse, which were being prepared for the Book Country festival.. Due to the loss of some publications, Vivat’s participation in the event is now in question.
“We are still counting the losses, because these are actually burnt books in three warehouses: ours and our partners’. There is no strength for any calls for support. Let’s survive,” Orlova concluded.
The Russian army has repeatedly struck at the Ukrainian book industry. In early August, a Russian attack destroyed the central warehouse of the logistics operator Denka Logistics, where most of the BookChef publishing house's circulation was stored.. As a result of the Russian strike, about 800 thousand books were destroyed.
In July, as a result of Russian shelling of Kyiv, the warehouse of the Knigolav publishing house was destroyed, where about 250 thousand books burned. Even earlier, the warehouse of the publishing house “One More Page” was damaged by a massive strike.. General Director of the BookChef publishing house Alexander Kirpichev talks more about the challenges that the Ukrainian book industry faces during the war in the article “The Book Market of Ukraine: Growth Against All Odds”.