Éditions Ring

Ring was established in 2012[3] in the same vein as the magazine Sur le ring.[4]

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.[5]

In January 2016, Ring started a pocket-side collection called La mécanique générale,[6] where successful titles are reprinted after two years. In 2019, the stand of Ring at the Brussels Book Fair was vandalised.[7][8]

Ring had a 785 000-euro revenue and a 130 000-euro benefit by late 2013, which Les Inrockuptibles stated was

an impressive number given the small catalogue — around 40 books — and small team

In 2014, revenue fell below 250 000 euros.[3]

Xavier Raufer has been involved with Ring.[3]

Scollar Pascal Durand has qualified Ring as being typical of a "neo-reactionnary" posture.[9] Libération sees Ring as a component of the Far Right, and has criticised its promotion of texts is deems to be xenophobic (La France Orange mécanique by Laurent Obertone, a compilation of crimes partially attributed to children of immigrants; Une élection ordinaire by journalist Geoffroy Lejeune, a fictional account of the election of Éric Zemmour for President of the French Republic); of climato-sceptics (such as a book by former meteo journalist Philippe Verdier).[10]

J.-L. Hippolyte, from Rutgers University-Camden, quotes an 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.[11]

A reporting on "the Far-Right attack on publishing", Ellen Salvi, a Mediapart journalist, states that in 2016,

within four years, it had settled in the media landscape by publishing fiction and non-fiction that was deliberately inflammatory, promoted by anxiogen advertising as well as by an aggressive usage of social media.[12]

David Serra has rejected the "Far-Right" qualification, stating that he "cares little for politics" and that "it is not because [he had] published a couple of Right-Wing authors [that he shared their opinions]. Les Inrockuptibles underlined that

the magazine Sur le ring, founded by the very same Serra, has nevertheless been quite politically oriented, as its motto states: it is about ‘‘bombing that dirty humanist atmosphere’’. "Ennemies" are angrily listed: ‘‘Altermondialists, rappers, feminists, antiracists, bobos’’…[3]

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