Maksym Tkachenko

A reporter specialising in the publishing industry: print-run economics, translation rights, and print logistics in wartime. He writes investigative pieces on how a book actually travels from manuscript to shelf, and regularly interviews publishers and editors with uncomfortable questions about fees and print runs. He teaches media literacy to philology students. He believes readers deserve to know not only about the book, but about the conditions in which it appeared. He keeps an open source register for every piece so that editors and authors can check the figures. He insists that trade journalism must be as evidence-driven as financial reporting: without verified documents, a text remains a draft. He follows the translation-rights market closely and publishes an annual summary of which Ukrainian books were bought abroad — the most accurate indicator of the industry's health, in his view.