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The article substantiates that the basic components of the book industry include: publishing, export, printing production and library system. The author considers dynamics of development of the book industry of Siberia and the Far East at the turn of XX-XXI centuries. Special attention is paid to the publishing sector in the region. In the period under review two distinct subperiods are revealed. The first, covering the last decade of the twentieth century, includes the processes of formation of the foundations of the book industry based on market mechanisms of economic management, privatization, corporatization, establishment of independent enterprises, the growth of private enterprise, the development of the book business. Vector of the 1990s was directed towards the reduction of circulation and number of titles of books with a parallel increase in the number of publishers in the region, redistribution of roles and positions, transformation of state forms of publication, printing, distribution, replaced with private forms. A characteristic feature of the period was the ever increasing monocentrism of the book market of Russia, when the book enterprises and investment capital concentrating in the center of the country. The second period coincided with the first years of the XXI century, when the stabilization phase of book publishing, polygraphy and book trade began. The period was characterised by the following dynamics: the increase in the number of book titles, decrease in the number of publishing enterprises, as well as reducing number of books produced in the region per capita. All this allows to speak about decrease in influence and share of Siberia and the Far East in book culture in the country, about the protracted crisis in the book industry, the need for change, making long-term measures to support regional publishing, printing, book trade, in order to preserve the values and benefits of book culture of Siberia for future generations.