New Books Are to be Found Not Only at Petrivka

The International Renaissance Foundation has held a public defense of three projects as part of a contest to set up an independent non-governmental distributor network embracing the whole Ukraine. $100,000 have been allocated for the system that will allow us to know the titles, circulation, and places of publication for new books, as well as to get in touch, via library servers and web-sites, directly with publishers interested in the fast sale of their literature. Probably in the nearest future, two or three years from now, when this system begins to work and pay off, there will also exist "virtual shops," where readers will be able to order the literature they need from all over the world. The current stage in the making of this system also aims to form a Books in Print catalogue which will present all Ukraine's new literature as early as this year.