Residents will be getting a change to receive reading related gift as part of the 15th Reading Month that will be happening next month. The organizing committee reported that China Mobile have already pledged to give 1.5 million in gift packages until the end of the year. Each package will contain a 15 yuan e-book [...]
China is the second biggest book market in the world following the United States and is long been a heavy consumer of works that comes from other countries and is now pushing to export their own literature abroad through the use of e-books. Industrial players stated during a recent book fair that they have observed [...]
Staffs of the Shenzhen city library is planning to install around 20 mobile library stands at local residential communities before the year ends. An employee of the library said that more residents are asking the library for free self service library stands in various places inside residential communities, wherein residents can use their library cards [...]
The Shenzhen Book Center in Futian closed its doors to the public after more than ten years of operations to do some business reorganization due to challenges from e-commerce, taxes and rent. The book center is funded by the Shenzhen branch of China National Nuclear corp. was a comprehensive bookstore that covers an area of [...]
Last Friday the Shenzhen Library opened a new reading room which offers more than 6,000 books in Chinese and foreign formats. The reading room is open for 16 hours a day where visitors scan their reader cards to be allowed to enter the room. The reading room has an area of 350 square meters and [...]
Shenzhen was awarded the honorary title of global model for promoting reading by UNESCO in Beijing as recognition of the city’s effort in their efforts to further improve resident’s literacy. The director general for UNESCO Irina Bokova stated that Shenzhen took the land in the development of creative and cultural industries in the country’s reform [...]
In a reuse program that was initiated by the city in the efforts to further reduce waste, had residents participating in a book exchange program with other residents in front of Shenzhen Book City in Futian. The event is the start of a special program of the urban management bureau to help increase the people’s [...]
An enterprising employee of BGI a genome sequencing company created an English language guide to Shenzhen that provides basic information to expats that moved to the city. The guide has 50 pages and divided to 10 sections is an introduction to Shenzhen. The guide can be downloaded for free on the company’s official website, just [...]
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 [...]
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