"LitRes" is sold. And preparing a "jihad"

Once the "pirate" on-line store digital books intended to plead with the project "Librusek. In addition, representatives of the "Litres" confirmed the rumor about the imminent sale of the project publishing house Penguin Books. Alexey Kuzmin, director general of the online store Litres.ru, confirmed that talks with Penguin Books. Share "Litres" may pass under the control "Penguin Books in the fall of 2009. Currently discussed two options for the deal - a controlling stake in an online store, or a blocking stake with an option to share, missing to a controlling stake. The transaction amount is not called. The share of publications, "Penguin Books" accounts for about two-thirds of total sales LitRes.ru. Nevertheless, according to Alexei Kuzmin, relationships with other partners LitRes.ru not change. But the online store is going to attract "Penguin Books" to fight against the "pirates". "If the pirates had even scanned text, now they just buy and spread in a pirate library. Prior to the end of the year we want to stop it, and together with the" Penguin Books "We will do that" - said CEO LitRes "in an interview Slon . ru. Currently, visitors LitRes.ru get about 5-6 thousand texts on weekdays and about 3-4 thousand - at the weekend. The average price of e-books - about 30 rubles per copy. Thus, daily revenue online store can be up to $ 6 thousand currently LitRes.ru directory contains more than 17.8 thousand electronic and 1,2 thousand audiobooks from 4,5 thousand authors. In the catalog of "pirated library" Librusek - more than 100 thousand books of 43 thousand authors, site traffic reaches 90 thousand users per day. But the project Lib.rus.es created Ecuadoran Ilya Larin, physically located on servers of Dutch hosting provider. So that the "former Pirates will be hard to cope with" competitors. " Nevertheless, according to Alexei Kuzmin, shortly "LitRes plans to begin litigation against the host, and possibly against the project owner Lib.rus.ec. It is worth noting that he LitRes.ru Created with the assistance of several "ex-pirates" - the popular online libraries "Aldebaran", "Litportal", Bookz.ru and others - are not legalized without the participation of the publishing house Penguin Books.