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Children's Books in China 2017: Xinjiang Juvenile Publishing House
This year marked the 60th anniversary of Xinjiang Juvenile Publishing House, which is located in Xinjiang, a province that makes up one-sixth of China’s total land area and borders eight countries, including Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
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Children's Books in China 2017: Trends in the Rights Market
Over the past decade, China has rapidly imported classic children’s books of all genres from the West.
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Children's Books in China 2017: Juvenile & Children’s Publishing House
Established in 1952, Juvenile & Children’s Publishing House was China’s first professional children’s publisher and is part of the much larger Shanghai Century Publishing.
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Children's Books in China 2017: Jieli Publishing House
This 27-year-old publisher (“a veritable young man in the industry,” says editor-in-chief Bai Bing) is less concerned with generating more new titles than publishing quality content for children.
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Children's Books in China 2017: Hunan Juvenile & Children’s Publishing House
Striving to uphold its stated mission to be “a kid’s best friend,” Hunan Juvenile & Children’s Publishing House has been on a 35-year journey to assemble the best children’s materials from near and far.
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Children's Books in China 2017: China Children’s Press & Publication Group
The Chinese home of Cipollino, Pippi Longstocking, Le petit Nicolas, and Tintin, China Children’s Press & Publication Group is the largest publisher in terms of output in the nation.
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Children's Books in China 2017: Beijing Dandelion Children’s Book House
Beijing Dandelion Children’s Book House grew from three full-time staff (counting founder and editor-in-chief Sally Yan) in 2007 to eight within a year.
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Children's Books in China 2017: Anhui Children’s Publishing House
With three offices in China and one in Lebanon, Anhui Children’s Publishing House adds about 800 new titles annually to its 15,000-title catalogue.
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Children’s Books in China 2017: 21st Century Publishing Group
Voted Best Children’s Publisher in Asia at the 2015 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, 21st Century Publishing Group has come a long way in its 32 years.
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Children's Books in China 2017: A Quick Survey of Bestselling Titles in China
A survey of sales from brick-and-mortar operations, online portals, and major publishers’ revenues has revealed some of China's bestselling titles in 2016.
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Children's Books in China 2017: A Brief Look at Some of China’s Biggest Children’s Publishers
Beijing-based Bookdao has identified 10 of the largest children’s book publishers in China.
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Children's Books in China 2017: Juvenile & Children Reading Experience Wonderland: A New Business Model
Located in Beijing’s central business district, the two-story Juvenile & Children Reading Experience Wonderland is a full-fledged subsidiary of China Children’s Press & Publication Group.
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Children's Books in China 2017: An Overview of the Children’s Book Market in China
PW spoke with Chinese publishers about some of the social and economic factors contributing the country's rapidly growing children's book industry.
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Children's Books in China 2017: Children’s Fun Publishing Company
Children’s Fun Publishing is a joint venture between Egmont Group and Posts & Telecommunications Press, so the wealth of foreign works in its 6,000-title catalogue is not surprising.
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Behind the Chinese Bestseller, 'The Story of Tencent'
The nonfiction bestseller, which came out last month in China and currently has over 500,000 copies in print, charts the rise of the country's biggest Internet company, app maker Tencent.
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Calendar Girl Strikes in France
Jumping to the top of Germany’s fiction list at the end of January was Swiss novelist Martin Suter’s Elephant, about a mysterious glow-in-the-dark pink elephant, the product of a genetic experiment, and the humans who want to exploit its powers of enchantment.
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Taiwan’s Indie Booksellers and Publishers Join Forces to Tackle Challenges
Book sales have plummeted in Taiwan in recent years, as have the number of bookstores in the island nation home to 23.5 million people.
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Behind the French Bestseller, 'The Office of Gardens and Ponds'
A French novel set in Japan over 1,000 years ago has been a bestseller in France since its January publication.
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Canadian Trade Groups Merge
Canadian Publishers' Council, which represents the interests of Canada's largest trade, education and professional publishers, has finalized its merger with the Canadian Education Research Council.
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