To face the challenges that the book industry is facing in the digital era, the city will be promoting the interest in reading and creating education opportunities and at the same time strengthen copyright laws. The president of Melody for Dialogue among Civilizations Association Mehri Madarshahi stated during the eve of the international book and [...]
Shenzhen Book City Cultural Gala Event garnered more than 1 million yuan in revenues in book sales. Around 246,000 yuan worth of books were sold in the first hour of the store’s promotion from midnight until 8 am and was the highest one hour sale on record. The promo was the first effort of the [...]
To place a final touch to the 13th Shenzhen Reading Month more than a thousand books were donated to people of ethnic minorities in Shenzhen. Most of the books donated were part of the list of recommended works for this year’s reading month. The list includes genres in literary classics, social and economic sciences, and [...]
This Friday the Shenzhen Book City Store will be hosting an overnight cultural gala to celebrate the end of the annual Reading Month. Guests and visitors will be treated to 34 percent discounts on all publications sold in the store. Special gifts will given away to selected store customers such as Hakka salted chicken which [...]
The descendants of Chinese philosopher Confucius digitized the books that are said to delineating the ancient philosopher’s family tree that is believed to be the largest in the world. By digitizing the books it will now be easier for scholars to revise. The family tree paper collection contains the record of all 83 generations of [...]
A new library service started its operations in Luohu District Library yesterday that features people acting as living books. In a library section, instead of shelves filled with books, it was filled with people that answer questions and share their book experiences with readers. According to the library’s curator they are not satisfied in just [...]
Bookstores in Shenzhen should diversify their products and needs to add services such a toys, stationery or coffee kiosks to remain competitive in this digital age. During the opening ceremony of the 13th Shenzhen Reading Month, Francoise Debruille said that the city’s promotion of books and reading is quite impressive but bookstores in the city [...]
After undergoing training for three months 34 candidates have recently passed series of examinations to become the first batch of authorize professionals to promote reading activities in the city. Among the 34 candidates around 10 or 20 of them will selected and hired to be officials reading promoters and to organize reading activities at schools, [...]
Zheng Yuanjie, one of China’s famous fairy tale writers donated 10,000 books to the Shenzhen Book Donation and Exchange Center in Futian. Most the books Zheng donated were some of his popular fairy tales. And most of the books that he donated will be sent to rural village school in Guangdong. Zheng is also the [...]
A collection of 1,292 ancient Chinese books has been auction off for 216 million yuan in Beijing. The books is part of a library that belongs to the Guo family in Suzhou sold the books to a private buyer during the 2012 Beijing Council Spring Auction Monday night. The auction started at 9:35 pm with [...]
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