eyes on...: 22april2007 Sunday

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Gulfnews...

BOOK:

China's book industry is lagging behind: By Abdulla Al Madani,- An academic researcher and lecturer o Asian Affairs (Gulfnews Editorial)

"My article on India's huge book industry two weeks ago seems to have encouraged numerous readers to inquire about the other Asian giants book-publishing indusry....It is improtant to recognise that China, a country proud of its spledid cultural civilisation of more than 5,000 years and of being the nation that invented paper making and printing has achieved some advancement in book publishing and printing... in terns of exporting China exported nearly 2.5 million volumes of books in 204 in some 850,00 varieties and witha trading value os $11 million...According to a recent report, there are more than 4,000 underground publishing factories located in poor rural villages aroud the county and more than 2500 sales points all which are involved in printing and distributing pirated copes of books including those banned... most of these books are of poor print quality with many spelling mistakes and missing pages..But because they are sold at cheap prices................."

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