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The article objective is to analyze the activity of publishing houses established by literary organizations in Siberia and the Far East in the 1990s-2010s. So called “literary” publishers acted in the early XXI century within all regional offices of the Union of writers of Russia, books were also published by editorial boards of literary journals belonging to this Union. Getting some financial support from regional administrations, municipalities and legislative bodies at the beginning of XXI century, the official writers’ organizations resumed regular publication of old literary journals (“Sibirskie ogni”, “Ogni Kuzbassa”, “Enisei”, “Altai”, etc.), and initiated the creation of new ones (“Irtysh”, “Barnaul”, “Novosibirsk”, “Literaturnyi Omsk”, “Literaturnyi Vladivostok”, “Slovo Zabaikaliya”, etc.). Some of these magazines started to publish book annex. By the end of the first decade of the XXI century each writer’s organization in Siberia had its own publishing house: “Sibirskaya Gornitsa” (Novosibirsk), “Sibirskiy pisatel’” (Kemerovo), “Krasnoyarskiy pisatel’”, “Irkutskiy pisatel’”, etc. The release of book series was quite common. The alternative organization - the Union of Russian writers and its Siberian divisions implemented publishing projects as well. An active publishing promotion of amateur organizations (literary associations, studios, recreation centers) became a new phenomenon in the Russian book publishing history. They created several dozens of publishing structures, the largest of which was the publishing house ”Union of writers” in Novokuznetsk. The main study result was the conclusion about a significant expansion of the information field of literary movements in the Russian province during the last twenty years. Forming a new publishing environment in regions, literary organizations continue to diversify the business development in the Russian East.