About the company

A subsidiary with foreign investments “Book Club “Family Leisure Club” was established in 2000. The company is headquartered in the city of Kharkiv, Bohdana Khmelnitskogo str., 24.

“Book Club “Family Leisure Club” incorporates several large business directions: publishing, books and products sale service, online projects and logistic services.

Publishing house

“KSD” is the largest publishing house in Ukraine. Our main activities are: search of the new names in the modern literature, promotion of the Ukrainian authors, publishing of the world’s bestsellers, as well as novels — the prize-winners of the prestigious international awards. The products of our publishing house are intended for a very wide audience.

Books and goods sales

KSD is a service that offers books published by the company, as well as by other publishing houses. For those purchasers, who are KSD clients, we have special prices and special offers. Goods are sold through the following channels: KSD retail shops, call center and website. More than 7 million Ukrainian families have been our clients.

Online projects

KSD company is actively developing the electronic trade area. Our online projects are: online shop bookclub.ua, special projects books.ksd.ua and catalog.ksd.ua that are destined to promote top books and printed materials in a digital form.

The club history

2023 year

KSD attracts more world-famous authors to cooperation and forms new book series. The publishing house, inspired by the design of the books of Western colleagues, follows world trends in design: interesting endpapers and colored edges.

We participate in offline book festivals and forums and are happy to communicate with our readers: "Book Arsenal", "Kyiv Book Fest", "Lviv Book Forum" and "Kyiv Book Weekend".

2022 year

The company has been rebranding and changing the main work strategy. The printed catalog has been completely replaced by the monthly KSD book digest.

The range of books is replenished with more books from partners to satisfy the needs of all readers. From now on, KSD is not only a leading publishing house, but also a space for books that captivate readers from the very first page. The best selection and the best prices for regular customers are here!

2020 year

The Bookclub celebrates 20 years anniversary!

2018 year

We are proud to report about the latest achievements and awards of our publishing house.

Expanding our horizons! “Book Club “Family Leisure Club” introduces exclusive Italian cosmetics Bottega Verde.

The Club celebrates its 18 anniversary and presents the draw of the biggest prize in its history — 1 000 000 uah.

2016 year

ksd.ua — the official website of the “Book Club “Family Leisure Club” was created. Here you can learn in detail about all the areas of our work: publishing house, customer service, wholesale sales, online projects and logistics. You can also find contacts for authors and open vacancies of the company.

2015 year

The projects books.ksd.ua and catalog.ksd.ua were created.

2014 year

“Book Club “Family Leisure Club” company got an exclusive right to sell natural Italian cosmetics brand Bottega Verde in Ukraine.

2011 year

“Book Club “Family Leisure Club” started production and sale of the licensed electronic books.

2009 year

“Book Club “Family Leisure Club” founded its own Distribution Center.

“Book Club “Family Leisure Club” expanded its orders’ delivery service: in Kharkiv and in Kiev courier delivery service started operating. Today the courier delivery service is available for all the cities of Ukraine.

The number of purchasers of “Book Club “Family Leisure Club” books and other goods have reached 2 000 000 people.

2008 year

“Family Leisure Club” became the largest publishing house in Ukraine (according to the Book Chamber of Ukraine data).

2007 year

The Publisher “Book Club “Family Leisure Club” enters the Ukrainian and Russian wholesale trade market. “Book Club “Family Leisure Club” group companies joined the Russian Publisher "Bertelsmann Media Moskau JSC".

2006 year

The first “Book Club “Family Leisure Club” trade shop was opened. 71 shop provides service to customers throughout Ukraine (data on June 2016).

The publishing projects “The Ukrainian Prose Stars” and “The world’s bestsellers in Ukrainian” were founded. Later on they became a successful platform for development of the Ukrainian language product range both in different genres and ranges.

2005 year

The Club website bookclub.ua started its work.

500 000 readers have registered in the “The Ukrainian Prose Stars”

2004 year

“Book Club “Family Leisure Club” was incorporated into the world’s famous media holding Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, AG Germany.

2002 year

The company is developing its publishing activity. The Publisher “Book Club “Family Leisure Club” published its first editions.

2001 year

The call center of the “Book Club “Family Leisure Club” started to serve its customers.

2000 year

Foundation of “Book Club “Family Leisure Club” company.