Ostap Verbytskyi

A reporter on the publishing trade. He writes about print-run economics, translation rights and print logistics — everything that normally stays behind the finished book. He follows a title's road from manuscript to shelf and interviews publishers and editors with uncomfortable questions about fees and print runs. He keeps an open source register for every piece so editors and authors can check the figures, and publishes an annual summary of which Ukrainian books were bought abroad, which he considers the most accurate measure of the industry's health. Trade journalism, he insists, must be as evidence-driven as financial reporting: without verified documents a text remains a draft.