This is the first book on the institutional and ecological characteristics of economic modernization of the book business in Russia 18th - the first half of 19th centuries. Contents: Proto-industrialization of book publishing in the first quarter of the 18th century; Market conversion of the state and institutional book publishing in the second quarter and middle of the 18th century; Legitimization of private incomes in the book business in the last third of the 18th century; Reconstruction of the mechanism of the state-private partnership in the book business in the first quarter of the 19th century; European organization of large retail sale of books in Russia in the second quarter of the 19th century. Bibliographical references.(0.245 kg.)