The Chinese ministry has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested company from publishing anything online in China, effective next month. This move will effectively shut down any news outlets, publishers, gaming companies, information providers, and entertainment companies. The banning of foreign media in China will be a hard blow to companies like Thomson Reuters, Dow … [Read more...] about China is Banning Foreign Companies from Publishing Anything Online
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Amazon Brings the $50 Fire Tablet to China
Amazon has experienced a massive amount of success with their budget friendly 7 inch fire tablet. In the last few months they have sold millions in the United States and United Kingdom. People seem drawn to the $50 piece of hardware that is a gateway to buying e-books, music and videos. Amazon is hoping that this tablet will be a success in China and they launched it there … [Read more...] about Amazon Brings the $50 Fire Tablet to China
The Company Responsible for China’s Netflix Switching Focus to Hardware
In China, streaming TV is dominated by Leshi Internet Information & Technology Corp (LeTV) --services owned and run by one of the country's wealthiest men, Jia Yueting. Word on the street has it that LeTV is looking for more investors in an effort to take aim at the mobile hardware marketplace (specifically smartphones, which the company is trying to rename as … [Read more...] about The Company Responsible for China’s Netflix Switching Focus to Hardware
New Report Uncovers China’s Book Sales
If there was every any doubt about the need for authors and publishers to distribute their books abroad, a new report on book consumption in China may have just put those thoughts to rest. While China does boast the largest single-country population on the planet, those numbers translate into an incredible amount of sales within the various provinces. What is more … [Read more...] about New Report Uncovers China’s Book Sales
Google Sets Sights on App Store in China
Android users in China (now numbering in the ten of millions) will be happy to know that many of them will have access to Google's app store (hopefully, at least). Though a specific launch date has yet to be discussed, Google is working with a legal team to get plans together (many of the core Google Play services, like Gmail and Maps, are currently being blocked in China). … [Read more...] about Google Sets Sights on App Store in China
Huawei Deems Tizen Doomed and Windows Phone Unprofitable
While it may be a name unfamiliar to many in North America, Huawei Technology Co. is quickly becoming a threat to Samsung as the world's biggest smartphone manufacturer. Based in China, the company is seeing rapid growth as they market their smartphones to emerging markets in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. While their business began by supplying networking … [Read more...] about Huawei Deems Tizen Doomed and Windows Phone Unprofitable
Chinese Digital Publishing Industry Valued at $56 Billion
The Chinese digital publishing industry is on the rise. Newspapers, magazines, comics and eBooks garnered 42 billion USD in 2012. This is a massive figure, but it only really accounted for 11.6% of the entire publishing industry. Chinese digital publishing has really grown up over the last two years with more companies focusing on smartphone delivery. New research has … [Read more...] about Chinese Digital Publishing Industry Valued at $56 Billion
Does Microsoft Have Any Claim On Android?
Microsoft has asserted for quite some time that they own patents that are being infringed upon by the Android operating system --and has often given the suggestion that it could all be made better if licensing was in place (read: Microsoft gains a revenue stream from something other than actually innovating their own mobile products). Until now, the question we have all had, … [Read more...] about Does Microsoft Have Any Claim On Android?
China’s eBook Space Comes into its Own
As more ebook retailers continue to work towards abandoning ship in the US, a global marketplace will become even more important than ever for authors and retailers. With successful and high-volume markets for digital reading already established in countries around the world, an even greater focus on digital publishing is still important. One of the most difficult but … [Read more...] about China’s eBook Space Comes into its Own