Luo Li, founder of Qidian, China’s largest online literature site, has been arrested and accused of selling copyrights to Tencent, which itself plans to launch a competing site.
Robert Fletcher and Bob Song of Publish on Demand Global describe the enormous effort required to work in China, but say the potential upside makes it worthwhile.
Reports from China say Amazon will launch both the Kindle Paperwhite and Fire devices in China this June at prices comparable to what they are in the USA.
When it comes to the future of the internet, Chinese and American companies are facing off and taking very different strategies. Which is likely to be victorious?
Ideas not technology should lead story development in the digital age, says multiplatform creator Matt Costello, a featured speaker at next week’s StoryDrive China conference.
Despite the lack of a publisher and censorship issues, pirated copies of Fifty Shades of Grey are proving popular at Chinese online bookstores.
Internet literature may be booming in China, but a recent survey reports that a majority of readers have been disappointed and unsatisfied with the quality of the books.
Peter Gordon of Hong Kong’s Chameleon Press and Jo Lusby of Penguin China talk discuss the developing English-language market for books in China.
Do super-sized bookstores still have a viable business model or are they being reduced to mere showrooms for ebooks?
China’s Baidu, Plagued by Piracy, Launches New E-Publishing Portal
China’s search engine giant Baidu has launched a new e-publishing site offering control of pricing and no commission in hope of improving relations with publishers.