Editoria e Media
Chinese E-Book Sales Increase Tenfold During the Pandemic
During a recent online conference between East-Asian librarians and Chinese publishers, Stephen Qiao , librarian of University of Toronto stated that digital resource has become more vital during the pandemic. Libraries need to work together with publishers and booksellers to create new service models for digital resource acquisition. Jidong Yang , Director of East Asia Library, Stanford University , also expressed his expectation of better quality and "faster print to digital transition" academic content, and maintaining regular communications with overseas library associations.
Challenges also arise for publishers and digital distributors. Books published before 2012 rarely have digital versions available. Publishers' digital rights normally revert to authors after three years. Also the cost of digitization is on the rise. To fit the requirements of different platforms, PDF, E-pub, and Html files are often needed, thus further increasing the cost of digitalization. CNPIEC's "China E-Book Hub" has an in-house digitalization department helping publishers to convert the necessaries files. CEPIEC also provides personalized services, aggregating E-book resources on demand. With the massive publisher network and dedicated content aggregation team, CNPIEC's "China E-book Hub" can fulfill librarian's request as soon as five business days. The on-demand service will be the important "next step" for better severing the institution customers from CNPIEC.
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