Jingdong, China’s third place commercial online bookstore, is boosting its challenge to Dangdang and Amazon’s dominance by focusing on service and international titles.
Last week two of China’s leading ebookstores Dangdang.com began offering nearly all of their ebooks for free, a move criticized by authors and publishers alike.
The internet has opened up new pathways for writers looking to circumvent state censors. This is especially true in countries like China, where internet use if booming.
Author and professor Jonathan Gottschall talks about why a compelling narrative is critical, not just for fiction, but for communication and connections of all kinds.
Asians may identify more closely with success stories akin to the American Dream than with the colonial values left by Europeans in the last centuries, writes Duncan Jepson.
In China children’s books are for indoctrinating good citizens and instilling morals, but elsewhere, kids books are becoming increasingly entertaining, enticing and personal.
As Asian authors come to prominence, the West should publish them, something that will be impossible without nurturing translators, says a Hong Kong literary agent Kelly Falconer.
Malaysia’s Tan Twan Eng won Asia’s most prestigious literary prize for The Garden of Evening Mists. The prize continues to grow and gain publicity for Asian authors.
Printed graphic storytelling is an extension of all that has been performed for centuries across Asia, where often the word and the graphic symbol are one.
Taiwanese Bookstore Chain Eslite Expands Aggressively into China
Taiwanese bookstore chain Eslite is aggressively expanding beyond its borders, with new stores in Hong Kong and several planned for mainland China, including one in a hotel.