Aleksandr Mamut skeptical about e-books, has no blog
Alexandr Rybakov, Webplanet.ru
Aleksandr Mamut, owner of the Internet company
Sup, said in a live interview with
Echo of Moscow radio that his acquisition of the Russian-language segment of
LiveJournal is a purely commercial move, not a political one. Mamut does not have a blog of his own, but says he would not mind publishing some of the LiveJournal bloggers. The interview was occasioned by Mamut's acquisition of a 100 percent stake in the publishing group
Inostranka. It turns out that the book mogul Mamut is skeptical about the success of e-books. Yet he hinted at what he called an invisible link between his acquisition of LiveJournal and publishing houses and the bookstore chain
Bookberry which he owns. "I have a strong emotional affection for book publishing," Mamut said.
