The 18th Beijing International Book Fair lowered its curtain on September 4th. A total of 2,953 copyright trade agreements were signed between China and foreign countries (+574 y-o-y) [see post "Copyright export breakthrough on 17th Beijing International Book Fair"]. Among them, 1,412 copyrights were sold or sought cooperation with foreign publishers, a 17 percent rise [...]
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China’s copyright trade improving
31/08/2011In recent years, the ratio between copyright import & export has gradually been reduced. According to the “2010 Analysis Report on the News and Publishing Industry”, the proportion of copyright export to copyright import was 1:2.9 in 2010, down from 1:3.3 a year earlier. During last year’s Beijing International Book Fair, a total of 2379 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
Copyright trade between Mainland China and Taiwan increased by 50% in 2010
12/05/2011According to the news from the 7th Straits Economic & Trade Cultural Forum, the news and publishing industry copyright trade between the mainland and Taiwan increased by 50% in 2010. Hao Zhensheng, Director of China News Publishing Research Institute, said that the trade increased especially in the book market. More and more Taiwan publishers intend [...]
Taobao Bookstore client launched in China – digital copyright competition?
06/05/2011Shortly after Shanda Literature released its Cloud Bookstore 2.0, Taobao Bookstore has also launched its client. Baidu Library is trying to eliminate the negative influence of its copyright infringement crisis. Apparently, a new round of competition in the digital copyright market is on the verge of breaking out. Source: Taobao Bookstore client launched (in Chinese) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Fuzhou Strait Creative Industry Copyright Fair held (China)
12/04/2011The 2nd Fuzhou Strait Copyright Creative Industry Fair will be held May 18-22 with three sections: Show area for excellent copyright works, including animation, woodcarving arts, original music etc. Sales area of copyright products, selling the creative works from theMainland and Taiwan Negotiation area appraisal, copyright registration etc. Compared with the first fair, more enterprises [...]
Hanvon (Hanwang) publishes Japanese manga in digital form for the first time (China)
25/03/2011Hanvon (Hanwang) cooperates with Japan’s Creek & River Press (Chuanghe Press in Chinese) to import their manga for digital download onto the Hanvon e-reader. Hanvon’s President Liu Jianying expressed that this kind of digital publishing import and issuing is their first attempt, but that a closer cooperation in import and export of digital content copyright [...]
China’s imports and exports of books and publications to strike a balance within five years
09/03/2011According to an article in China Daily, GAPP Director Liu Binjie is “confident the country will strike a balance between imports and exports of books and publications during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) … due to growing curiosity about China’s development mode and its economic achievements, along with the country’s efforts to promote itself”. This [...]
GAPP’s five focal areas: modern management, digitalization, rural areas, int’l expansion, anti-piracy (China)
09/03/2011At a panel discussion on March 7th in Beijing, GAPP Vice Director Jiang Jianguo enumerated five areas on which GAPP intents to focus: Further deepen the reform: Introduction of modern management systems in restructured enterprises, also on a micro-level, while improving press and publication services. (Also see previous post: Policy speech on system reform of [...]
Overview of strategies of major Chinese publishing groups for 2011
15/02/2011For 2011, China’s publishing groups take measures to promote industry development: China Publishing Group will be listed in 2011 and designates this year as “Innovation Year” with a focus on: – digital publishing network to be opened by April, – quicker pace of “going out” (book copyright trade and creating international impact), – diversifying business. [...]
China’s book publishers predict export boom, taking advantage of overseas expertise
06/01/2011Due to several recent cooperation agreements between Chinese and overseas publication houses (for an example, see previous post “Lagardere Group, Shanghai Press and Publishing Development Co. sign int’l sales and service agreement“), the director of GAPP’s international exchange and cooperation department expects a y-o-y rise of 15% in China’s book export revenue. China International Book [...]
