Éditions Ring


Ring is a French publishing company founded in 2012 by David Kersan, also known as David Serra. It publishes thrillers, novels, non-fiction and comics. It is considered to a have far-right political position and publishes material from controversial authors.
WWW ring.fr

History

Ring was established in 2012 in the same vein as the magazine Sur le ring.
Authors published by Ring include Stéphane Bourgoin, Joël Houssin, Laurent Obertone, Zineb El Rhazoui, Frédérique Lantieri, Dominique Rizet, Philippe Verdier, Ghislain Gilberti, Norman Mailer, Jocko Willink and Marsault.
In January 2016, Ring started a pocket-side collection called La mécanique générale, where successful titles are reprinted after two years. In 2019, the stand of Ring at the Brussels Book Fair was vandalised.
Ring had a 785 000-euro revenue and a 130 000-euro benefit by late 2013, which Les Inrockuptibles stated wasIn 2014, revenue fell below 250 000 euros.
Xavier Raufer has been involved with Ring.

Collections

Editorial stance

Scholar Pascal Durand has qualified Ring as being typical of a "neo-reactionnary" posture. Libération sees Ring as a component of the Far Right, and has criticised its promotion of texts is deems to be xenophobic ; of climato-sceptics.
J.-L. Hippolyte, from Rutgers University-Camden, quotes a short portrait of Maurice G. Dantec, one of the star authors of Ring, by founder Serra, as being a "Christian Zionist, pro-American, anti-laic, counter-Revolutionary militant.
A reporting on "the Far-Right attack on publishing", Ellen Salvi, a Mediapart journalist, states that in 2016,
David Serra has rejected the "Far-Right" qualification, stating that he "cares little for politics" and that "it is not because published a couple of Right-Wing authors . Les Inrockuptibles underlined that