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The 18th Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) is held in the New China International Exhibition Center, Shunyi District, Beijing from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4. China Publishing Group Corporation (CPGC) brings about over 3,000 titles of excellent books, periodicals, latest products of digital publishing published by 7 affiliated publishing entities to participate in the fair.
CPGC has established an exhibition delegation with Tan Yue, president as the head, and Wang Tao, party secretary and Liu Bogen, vice president in charge of “going abroad” work as deputy head. CPGC’s foreign cooperation department and science, technology and digital publishing department took the lead and organized its affiliate 17 publishing entities as well as China Publishing Group Digital Media Co Ltd and China Publishing Group Digital Equipment Co Ltd and other digital publishing institutions to join the fair together.
CPGC’s exhibition stand covers 756 square meters, a slight increase as compared to the previous year. It is comprised of three parts: the 576-square-meter book exhibition area (E1.A01), 72-square-meter periodicals’ exhibition area (W2.A05), and the 108-square-meter digital publishing exhibition area (W1.B02).
CPGC exhibits various digital publishing products it has developed and has constantly perfected and updated, including a digital publishing platform –www.Dajia.net (China Digital Publishing Net), an on-demand printing digital equipment “Flash Printing King,” online dictionary (www.refbook.com.cn), and Eastern Miscellany Magazine Database, etc..
At this year’s fair, CPGC focuses on promoting and displaying www.Dajia.net, a digital publishing portal that the group has devoted efforts to build in 2011. “www.Dajia.net” Studio is set up on the site, to have interviews with celebrities and interact with readers.
As the application and service platform for China’s digital publishing industry, www.Dajia.net not only provides e-versions of over one million titles of paper-based books for readers to read online, but also provide most convenient platform to submit material for publication the netizans may directly submit their works for publication, and the publishers will publish it online or offline according to their needs. Furthermore, www.Dajia.net will initiate interaction mode of readers with advisors, It has engaged over twenty celebrities as its advisors for the first time, and in the future there are more celebrities will be invited to join the advisor team, which will recommend good books for readers and make comments, providing them the best quality online reading experience.
By virtue of the opportunities at the fair, CPGC will actively conduct exchanges with publishers abroad and in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and explore the chance of in-depth cooperation.
1.CPGC and Sino United Publishing (Holdings) Limited will co-sponsor “Beijing -- Hong Kong Publishing G2 Summit of Exchange.”
2.CPGC and Japanese exhibitors will hold Sino-Japan Publishing Exchange.
Also, subsidiaries affiliated with CPGC will conduct a series of exchanges actively, mainly including:
1.China Translation & Publishing Corporation (CTPC）will hold the signing ceremony of outbound copyright licensing of the book Be Forever Grateful of Mao Zedong.
2.CTPC will hold the release conference of the publication of History of the Civilization of Central Asia & the signing ceremony of A General History of Latin America.
3.CTPC will hold the activity “International Cooperation in the Federated Media Age—Online Literature Recreation & International Promotion.”
4.Encyclopedia of China Publishing House will hold the release conference of DK Children’s Encyclopedia Series & Forum on Children’s Encyclopedia.
5.World Publishing Corporation will hold ceremony to launch the new book titled as 1911.
6.Commercial Press will launch the new book Wolters Kluwer Law Translation Series and hold the signing ceremony of strategic cooperation on English edition of Library of Selected Chinese Legal Cases.
Copyright trade has become the mainline of “going abroad” work of the group and its affiliates. In the first half of this year, CPGC has licensed outbound copyrights of more than 100 titles, including Love of Chinese Hawthorn Tree by People’s Literature Publishing House, New Copyright Issues in China by the Commercial Press, etc.. CPGC will strive to make new breakthroughs in outbound copyright licensing at this session of BIBF.
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