At the 18th Beijing International Book Fair, the Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press launched new digital products [see post "Roads of China’s digital publishing export"] : a digital reading pen for foreign languages “Wai Yantong” [probably Viaton], Internet teaching materials and a collaborative translation platform. The digital reading pen will be promoted in primary [...]
Archive for the ‘professional press / trade publications’ category
Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press: on digital road to educational service provider (China)
08/09/2011Roads of China’s digital publishing export
06/09/2011During the Beijing International Book Fair, journalists of China Press and Publishing Journal interviewed participants about their viewpoints and experiences concerning “go out”. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (FLTRP): new content channels and technology for overseas markets. To make its products more suitable for overseas markets, FLTRP has adapted content to different media formats [...]
“Urgent Notice” on publishing and distribution of teaching materials issued by China’s GAPP
22/08/2011Focusing on the excessive number and low quality of primary and secondary school supplementary teaching materials, GAPP released the “Notice on Further Enhancing the Management of Primary and Secondary School Supplementary Teaching Publications” on August 17th. One day later, an “Urgent Notice” on supervision and implementation was given to localities and departments concerned, setting a [...]
China’s Top Ten publishing houses, newspaper, printing and distribution groups
25/07/2011The “2010 Analysis Report of the News and Publishing Industry” includes several Top Ten lists, with the ranking based on total output, value added, total assets, equity (net assets), revenue and gross profit. China’s Top Ten publishing groups: Phoenix Publishing & Media Group Co., Ltd., Jiangsu, Hunan Publishing Investment Holding Group, Zhejiang Publishing United Group [...]
A new scientific publishing “aircraft carrier”: China Science and Technology Media Group
25/07/2011On July 19th, China Science and Technology Media Group Co.,Ltd. and its subsidiary China Science and Technology Media Corp. were established. Previously, China Publishing Group and China Education Media Group had been set up as national “aircraft carriers” (=national champions). China Science and Technology Media Group will integrate scientific publishing resources of the Chinese Academy [...]
Three US publishing groups to support China’s publishing overseas market expansion
13/07/2011In order to speed up the pace of “going out”, GAPP signed Memorandums of Cooperation with Condé Nast, National Geographic and IDG during GAPP Vice Director Jiang Jianguo’ visit to the USA. According to the memorandum, GAPP will support the overseas promotion and distribution of Chinese journals through a cooperation with Condé Nast. Through product, [...]
First digital copyright case decided in China
28/06/2011In October, 2009, Zhonghua Book Company accused Hanvon Technology of infringing its copyright. Last week, the verdict on China’s “first digital copyright case” came down: Zhonghua Book Company lost the lawsuit. The case reflects the disorder in the digital copyright trading market, therefore, establishing a fair digital copyright sharing platform becomes very necessary and urgent. [...]
Beijing Youth Daily Group launches Beiqing Pad (China)
27/06/2011The new media Beiqing Pad, developed by Beijing Youth Daily Group, was featured at the Party Newspaper and Magazine Career Development Achievement Exhibition for the 90th Anniversary of the CPC. With the self-developed Beiqing OS the tablet computer allows newspaper reading, videos, games, online interaction and a large number of apps. Source:Beiqing Pad launched in [...]
China Publishing Blue Book: 5 kinds of publications in center of market attention
21/06/2011As already mentioned in China Publishing Blue Book: six development trends in 2011, the “2010-2011 Development Report on China’s Publishing Industry (China Publishing Blue Book)” has been released. According to the report, five kinds of publications will be paid great attention to by the market in 2011: Publications that reflect the core values of socialism and [...]
People’s Daily: seven countermeasures against paid publishing of academic papers in China
16/06/2011In recent years, the problems of an unsound system and unscientific standards and methods for the evaluation of academic papers in China’s academic circles have caused widespread public concern. To eliminate the paid-publishing phenomenon, a more scientific academic evaluation mechanism should be established: Comprehensive treatment of the “paper economy”, such as an internet management department [...]
Private capital for China’s non-political newspapers and periodicals?
15/06/2011In 2011, 5000 non-political newspapers and periodicals are carrying out the full transformation to enterprises. Two of the major problems in this reform process are the high conversion cost for transferring staff’s roles (e.g., Electrical Business News still needs to pay for personnel pensions after the system reform) and the difficulty in rebuilding the market, [...]
Chinese version of “The Oncologist” launched
08/06/2011With increasing demand for tumor treatment, multinational foreign companies accelerate their pace of entering China’s market. The Chinese version of “The Oncologist” was launched to also serve this market. Since May 2011, 10,000 professional members of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology will receive the Chinese translation every month. Source: Foreign tumor journal launched Chinese [...]
Times Publishing Media Company cooperates with China National Museum
07/06/2011On May 31st, Times Publishing Media Company and China National Museum signed a strategic cooperation agreement on building an omni-media cultural industry chain. According to the agreement, Times Publishing will develop a variety of publications on the Museum’s collections and exhibitions, including print, digital and online publications, electronic audio & video as well as other [...]
China’s 21st National Book Expo – Sino-Russian agreement
06/06/2011China’s 21st National Book Expo lowered its curtain on May 30th. During the three-day exhibition, the main venue displayed 370,000 publications and contracts worth 5.35 billion RMB were signed. As the main co-organizer, Heilongjiang Publishing Group signed an agreement with Russia Far-East Federal University on building the Russia-China and China-Russia culture centers, and signed an [...]
Legal and copyright issues of China’s publishing industry’s globalization
06/06/2011How copyright trade can “go out” during the 12th Five-Year Plan period is a topic of common concern to copyright industry insiders. From a legal perspective, “go out” means copyright foreign trade. This process mainly involves three legal problems: The effectiveness of work and its copyright. Having a legal, effective work and its copyright is [...]
GAPP recommends 25 excellent children’s newspapers & periodicals (China)
02/06/2011On the occasion of Children’s Day (June 1st), the General Administration of Press and Publication released the 2011 List of Recommended Excellent Children’s Newspapers and Periodicals. Five newspapers and twenty periodicals were recommended, e.g. Henan Education Newspaper and Periodical Publishing House’s “Newspaper for Primary School Students” and Hubei Education Newspaper and Periodical Media Company’s “Pupil’s [...]
First High-Quality Periodical Expo held in Changchun (China)
31/05/2011The first High-Quality Periodical Expo will be held during the 2011 China Changchun Book Fair 01-09 June. 65 selected periodicals of Jilin province will be exhibited at the fair. As market competition intensifies, the selected journals make great effort to improve their quality, resulting in continuously increasing circulation. Some newly-founded periodical have grown into new [...]
China establishes first Culture Publishing Center in Africa
30/05/2011The first Chinese Culture Publishing Center in Africa, co-founded by Zhejiang Publishing United Group and Nairobi University, held its opening ceremony in Nairobi (Kenya) on May 25th. The publishing center is expected to promote the cooperation between Zhejiang Province and East Africa in the publishing industry and expand the former’s business there. Source: First Chinese [...]
China’s Commercial Press sells digital copyright to Wolters Kluwer
26/05/2011In last August, Commercial Press established a strategic cooperative partnership and signed a copyright trade framework agreement with Wolters Kluwer. In the same year, Commercial Press imported the English translation copyright for a series of labor and social security books from the latter. On May 24th, the two sides signed another trade agreement: Commercial Press [...]
China’s strongest journal brands
26/05/2011China’s strongest journal brands, as mentioned in the context of the “Chinese Government Award for Publishing” for journals in a qikan.org article: Reader: Mind reader As a mass magazine, Reader accounts for a 3.3% shares in the domestic magazine market. Its success can be attributed to their efforts to integrate diversified culture. Furthermore, the magazine does [...]
Forbes, The Economist, Bloomberg: Business magazines eye China growth
19/05/2011In the long article “Business magazines eye China growth“, China Daily describes the different roads into China being taken by foreign business magazine publishers now and in the future – and throws Elle China into the basket for good measure.
21st China Book Trade Fair to be held May 27th – 30th
19/05/2011The 21st China Book Trade Fair will be held May 27th to 30th in Heilongjiang Province, 36 delegations and 100,000 people are expected to attend the fair. The organizer provides 4,000 booths for displaying 300,000 publications, 60% of them will be newly published or key books. A series of thematic activities such as China Copyright [...]
The third batch of 81 transformed culture enterprises announced (China)
17/05/2011According to the website of China’s Finance Ministry, on May 12th the third batch of 81 culture enterprises centrally affiliated to the Chinese Communist Party has been identified as transformed culture enterprise. The 81 enterprises, such as People’s Daily Online, Higher Education Press, China International Book Trade Group, etc., will receive preferential tax policy. So [...]
2nd Cross-Straits Copyright Trade Fair: volume to reach 1 bln RMB (China)
16/05/2011The 2nd Cross Straits Copyright Industry High-quality Products Trade Fair will be held at the Fuzhou Straits International Exhibition Center May 18th – 22nd. Four hundred enterprises including seventy comic & game enterprises will attend the fair and exhibit more than 1,500 high-quality products. The trade volume is expected to reach one billion RMB. Source: [...]
Academic publishing: Biochemical Journal opens Editorial Office in China
11/05/2011As stated in the press release of Biochemical Journal (PDF), “This new office provides authors in China an opportunity to submit their papers directly in order to receive a faster, more supportive service.” Comment: So the American Institute of Physics cooperates with a local editing service partner (see previous post “Academic publishing – international editing [...]
GAPP: Publishing sector restructuring won’t mean closures
10/05/2011As China Daily reports in its article “Publishing sector restructuring won’t mean closures“, the merger of small publishers into larger groups will not lead to a decrease in the number of newspapers and periodicals, although “60 to 70 percent of non-political newspapers and periodicals are running a deficit” and “50 to 60 percent of publishing [...]
Next step in restructuring: non-current affairs publications – China Press and Publishing Media Group established
10/05/2011With a ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Press and Publishing Media Group was founded on 8th May as one of the first non-current affairs newspaper units to be restructured according to policies for the 12th five-year period. China Press and Publishing Media Group consists of one newspaper, two magazines, [...]
Academic publishing – international editing service in China as “export subsidy”?
03/05/2011In the original article of yesterday’s post “An opinion on academic publishing in China: top universities should “retire” their own journals“, CAS member Wang Dingsheng lauded the strict reviewing process of foreign journals. Apart from ethical differences Wang is implying, this stage often represents a stumbling block for Chinese authors and their institutions: non-native English [...]
Chinese publishers’ vicious competition for foreign bestseller’s copyright
02/05/2011The royalty paid for copyright import of foreign bestsellers has increased drastically. An industry insider thinks that Chinese publishers’ vicious price competition caused a rise in royalty and will eventually hurt readers. Faced with Chinese publishers’ scramble, copyright holders of foreign bestsellers are in a strong position, selling at high market prices. In order to [...]
An opinion on academic publishing in China: top universities should “retire” their own journals
02/05/2011Recently, Wang Dingsheng, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, expressed his viewpoints on academic journals in an interview with Hefei Evening. The number of domestic academic papers increases sharply. Wang found that Chinese researchers prefer foreign journals, but the citation rate of papers published in foreign journals is not high. Furthermore, the number [...]
China’s printing service export revenue to reach 100 billion RMB in 2015
28/04/2011According to the 12th Five-Year Development Plan for the Press & Publication Industry, China will promote its printing service export and encourage enterprises to undertake international high-end printing processing business. The printing service export revenue is expected to reach 100 billion RMB in 2015. Some specific actions and figures are given in the plan for [...]
China’s Development Plan for the Press and Publication Industry
26/04/2011In an interview, a GAPP official explained the main content of the newly released 12th Five-Year Development Plan: Accelerating transformation of economic development. The transformation of press & publication industry’s development is to be basically completed. The strategic emerging industries such as digital publishing are to reach advanced world levels. More variety of press & [...]
China’s newspaper & periodical publishing units to be halved
26/04/2011According to the 12th Five-Year Development Plan for the Press & Publication Industry released by GAPP on April 20th, the number of China’s newspaper and periodical publishing units will be halved to fewer than 5,000 during the 12th five-year period. Ten cluster centers for the newspaper & periodical publishing industry with strong radiation capability and [...]
China’s “Business Watch Magazine” to stop publication
20/04/2011Business Watch Magazine, a weekly published by the Xiamen Economic Information Research Institute, will cease the current form of publication with its April issue after eleven years and is to be relaunched as an academic journal. Source: Business Watch Magazine announces publication stop (in Chinese) Comment: The weekly made headlines a year ago, being suspended [...]
Basic cost structure of a newspaper daily in China
14/04/2011In an article weighing the pros and cons of a newspaper ad weekly vs. a special issue, an exemplary simple cost structure analysis was provided. Nanhu Evening Paper has a circulation of 110,000. In December, 2010, the newspaper’s unit cost was composed of: paper: 0.0505 RMB, printing: 0.0324 RMB, editing: 0.1673 RMB, distribution: 0.0656 RMB. [...]
Case: Tianjin Publishing Media Group plans for 2011 (China)
11/04/2011According to its 2011 Annual Working Meeting, Tianjin Publishing Media Group and its subsidiary companies intend to reach a 15% increase y-o-y in the major economic indicators. The focus will be on five activities in 2011: To accelerate building a large joint-stock cultural enterprise controlled by the Tianjin Publishing Media Group, with Northern United Publishing [...]
Why should we pay both, CNKI and publishers? (China)
06/04/2011In China, journal publishing differs from international practice like Elsevier, open access periodicals and independent publications. A journal is often published by a “unit” like a research institute or an organization rather than a publishing group. Common databases like CNKI (Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure) and Vip are just a collection of articles published in Chinese [...]
BOMA real estate magazines to be launched, domestic and int’l China edition
01/04/2011The BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) (China) and MediaEdge signed a long-term exclusive cooperation agreement to begin a Chinese domestic edition and an international magazine on China on September 1st, 2011. A database of Chinese business real estate will also be established to provide a sharing and communication platform for insiders. The domestic edition [...]
Academic publishing: China to overtake US in two years
31/03/2011According to a study by the Royal Society, China will pass the US in scientific output (measured in published research articles) as early as 2013, one reason being huge R&D investment. However, as is pointed out in the BBC news article “China ‘to overtake US on science’ in two years” the citation index rankings reveal [...]
China International Publishing Group: using international book fairs to increase Chinese publications’ influence in the world
30/03/2011With the advantages of information, channels, interpersonal relations and experience accumulated in international communication, China International Publishing Group formed its own international publishing and export-oriented characteristic, promoting cultural exchange as well as Chinese publications’ influence in the world. Every year, the group publishes 3,000 books in nearly 20 languages, its exports constitute more than 50% [...]
After “trash academic journal” scandal: Peer-review and new citation analysis for academic evaluation in China
30/03/2011The issue of the relationship between core academic journals and academic evaluation systems has been brought into public focus (see previous post Publication of academic papers to be better regulated to ensure quality). Sheng Xigui, Director of the China Books and Newspapers Information Center of Renmin University in Beijing, expressed his opinion in an interview: [...]
