I don’t really understand the publishing of books on paper, unless they are books for small children that can be physically chewed on or, at a slightly older age, creatively scribbled in. Even if a person leads a settled life in their own home, storing paper books at home is a luxury, since one needs to acquire such a strange vintage interior item as a bookcase (if there are few books in the house, a small shelf in the toilet is more suitable). And if a person rents accommodation, is forced to move from time to time, and doesn’t even know within which state they will be in six months, then for them the expression “paper book” is definitely something for the rich. Therefore, paper books migrate to public spaces, and they are more often seen in some time-cafes next to board games. The few paper books that somehow ended up with me in recent years quickly migrated to one of these spaces, and now in the apartment I rent there lies one single comic in Serbian about Corto Maltese, which strayed from a comics festival.

Nevertheless, paper books, this deeply niche product, are still not only being bought by some, but even new specimens are being produced. For instance, my acquaintances were engaged in this back in Russia, founding the “Svoboda” publishing house, then continued in Montenegro, and now in Germany. However, they are still oriented towards the Russian market and are mainly sold on Ozon. I doubt that my own books will be published in this way, because they are extremely small in volume, which means that the share of postage costs in the expenses of obtaining the finished product will be disproportionately high. However, if I happen to write another work, then three books under one cover already have a chance.

On the other hand, “Svoboda” published my translation of Friedman’s “Mechanics of Freedom,” and there are even a couple of dozen reviews on the Ozon website. You can perfectly well read the translation for completely free in electronic form, but if you enjoy owning a hefty souvenir brick, you are welcome. As I understand it, the links I will provide here have a built-in mention that they were received specifically from me. I think this is for analytics, so the publishers can understand how effectively advertising in this way works. I have no idea myself, we’ll see.

What is there on libertarianism, besides Friedman?

2. Alya Zanoza. A Guide to Rational Egoism. Well, I’ve started with my trump card right away, of course. You are likely familiar with Alya from her YouTube channel, which is apparently facing a soon-to-be renaming to “Serbian Political Furnace.” The text of the book is not in the public domain, so buying a two-hundred-page brick is not only a souvenir, but also an extremely perverse way to get acquainted with the content of Alya’s creativity. If the author throws the text my way, maybe I’ll even post a review.

3. Linda and Morris Tannehill. The Market for Liberty. This is another exclusive, previously unpublished anywhere in Russian. Friedman and the Tannehills almost certainly actively cross-pollinated each other’s ideas (I judge by the nearly identical publication years and references in Friedman, since I am not directly familiar with the Tannehills’ work). For example, the famous idea of private security agencies, which are intended to replace the most toxic function of the state, was launched to the masses in the 20th century precisely by the Tannehills.

4. Hans-Hermann Hoppe. A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism. This is no longer an exclusive of the “Svoboda” publishing house, but a reprint of an edition by the Novosibirsk Hyde Park Library. Judging by the annotations, the most valuable part of the book is not the reflections on socialism and capitalism at all, but Hoppe’s argumentative ethics, upon which he presumably bases all further constructions.

5. Ayn Rand. Capitalism: An Apologia. This is a noticeably less popular author, judging by the number of reviews on Ozon. This is a collection of various articles in which Ayn Rand applies the tools of the objectivism she developed to reflect on different political concepts. Maybe in my old age I’ll also put together a little collection of appendices to various aspects of reality for my own theories…

6. David Bergland. Libertarianism in One Lesson. It so happened that I knew about this book on the basics of libertarianism, but in my time I didn’t bother to read it, immediately rushing to chew through Rothbard. As a result, I have no idea how good this direct competitor to my Ancap is for carriers of Russian culture. If anyone has compared them, please share your opinion.

Perhaps in the foreseeable future I will make more detailed reviews of these books, as well as new releases from the publishing house, should any appear.