Demand for paper books and maps has increased in Moscow amid Internet outages
Demand for paper books, maps and guidebooks has increased in Moscow amid disruptions to communications and the Internet. Anastasia Savchuk, head of the press service of the Chitai-Gorod bookstore chain, told Izvestia about this on March 12.
According to her, from March 6 to March 10, sales in bookstores increased by about 50% compared to the previous week. Car maps, guidebooks, and subway maps were at the top. Savchuk added that if you add up all the incidents with the Internet over the year, the demand for paper products increased by 26%.
"We noticed an increase in book purchases, that is, if we compare week to week, the number of book sales has increased both online and offline," Savchuk said.
In turn, Artyom Sokolov, president of the Association of e-Commerce Companies, noted that due to communication disruptions, companies that do not have wired Internet and are not on the "white list" may be left without customers.
"A customer who has ordered a product or ordered a service for himself will not be able to consult or find out where the courier is at the moment, how long to wait for him, or plan his time," Sokolov stressed.
According to him, this will lead to the abandonment of services that do not provide stable operation, and the flow of customers to those who are able to function even when the Internet is turned off.
On February 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law obliging telecom operators to disconnect networks at the request of the FSB in the prescribed cases. The document notes that operators will not be responsible for communication outages if the network outage is related to the FSB requirement. It is also emphasized that operators are required to disconnect communications at the request of the FSB in cases that will be determined by presidential regulations.
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