The emerging phenomenon of Moshkow's lib.ru is one of the most oldest and popular free self-publishing websites in the world, samlib.ru, where many authors are

The emerging phenomenon of Moshkow's lib.ru is one of the most oldest and popular free self-publishing websites in the world, samlib.ru, where many authors are actually getting published by publishing houses. This is how "samizdat" works today. What author misses is that Russian pirate libraries are based outside Russia for quite some time. The infamous http://lib.rus.ec http://lib.rus.ec was once the effort of a couple running cafe in Quito, Ecuador. Its freely accessible fork maintained as http://flibusta.is http://flibusta.is has sort of Icelandic scent. Both run Drupal. What is even more interesting - http://alib.ru http://alib.ru provides free access to acquiring cheep rare and vintage physical Russian editions from enormous amount of small second-hand booksellers. I can name nothing like that in the UK.