Among the authors - Daria Dontsova, Olga Primachenko, Eduard Verkin, Dmitry Emets, Katya Kachur, Mikhail Labkovsky, Asya Lavrinovich, Anna and Sergei Litvinova, Alexandra Marinina, Diana Mashkova, Tatiana Muzhitskaya, Viktor Pelevin, Igor Prokopenko, Oleg Roy, Dina Rubina, Emma Scott, Tatiana Ustinova and others.

The beginning of Eksmo's history dates back to the late Soviet Union, when only state publishing houses existed in the country.

Businessman Alexander Krasovitsky created a trading company-distributor "Express", which ordered copies of certain books from Moscow printers and sold them in regions all over the country (and initially after the collapse of the Union - outside Russia), receiving 25-50% of the proceeds.

These were mainly reprints of foreign classics, historical novels (Valentin Pikul's works, in particular, were very popular), and books that had previously been banned in the USSR.

Thanks to the publication of Russian detectives (primarily novels by Danil Koretsky and Alexandra Marinina) in the late 1990s, Eksmo significantly increased its sales and became the basis of a large holding company, which included printing houses, bookstore chain "Bukvoed", publishing houses "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber", "Ventana-Graf", "Drofa" and others.

A network of eight regional distribution centers (RDCs) ensures prompt delivery of books to bookstores in 1–3 days.

A group of writers and artists, including Alexander Gelman signed an open letter questioning its editorial policy.

[1] Oleg Novikov, the director of the publishing house, responded that he felt obligated to cater to the taste of his readers, and not to censor them.