International Publications Expo Online China sponsored by China
International Publishing Group (CIPG), is to go online on the China
International Book Trading Corporation website,
www.cnokay.com from
August 10 through October 9 this year.
Sponsored by China International Publishing Group (CIPG), the
online book fair will be undertaken by www.china.com.cn and the
China International Book Trading Corporation. It aims to provide
publishers and distributors with an electronic business platform
integrating copyright trading information and transaction and
exhibition. To this end, it will provide online visitors with
timely and comprehensive information on copyright trading and books
as well as instant and easy search facilities and secure online
ordering services. There will be a special forum on the website for
readers to exchange views with noted authors. In addition, the
website will provide a wholesale platform for domestic publishing
houses to conduct copyright and book transactions with overseas
counterparts and distributors.
Many publishing houses at home and abroad have signed up to
participate in the book fair. They include Shanghai Classics
Publishing House, Shanghai Pictorial Publishing House, Tianjin
Classics Publishing House, Jilu Press, Jilin Literature and History
Publishing House, Jiangsu Classics Publishing House, Cathay
BookShop Publishing House as well as US-based China Books and
Periodicals Inc, the Great Wall and Hong Kong Peace Books Company.
Participation in this online book fair is free of charge with
various publishing houses have shown great interest, and
participating units expected to outnumber 100.
The online book fair is to be the first of its kind in China.
Compared with traditional book fairs, the online event will have
the advantage of allowing participants no regional restriction, low
trading costs, simple organizational work, as well as being safe
and easy to attend. Its wholesale platform will be a good example
of integrating traditional methods of distribution with Internet
marketing and e-commerce transactions.
(China.org.cn July 14, 2003)