MCLC: cross-strait publishing ties

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: cross-strait publishing ties
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Source: Taipei Times
():http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/02/06/2003524814

Publishers tout cross-strait publishing ties
Staff Writer, with CAN

Representatives in the publishing industries in Taiwan and China said they
expected both sides would conduct more frequent bilateral exchanges to
increase readership and jointly work on producing quality Chinese-language
publications.

Lee Ho, head of Taiwan’s Planter Press Co, said he expected the government
to further boost cross-strait exchanges in the publishing industry, such
as by reducing taxes on Taiwanese books exported to China.

Such a move would help increase the competitiveness of Taiwanese books in
China, Lee said, saying the price of a Taiwanese book is usually twice as
high as books published in China.

Citing about 20 years of cross-strait cooperation in the publishing area
via copyright purchases, visits by publishing
representatives and participation in each other’s book fairs, Lee said it
was time for the government to “take further actions.”

“Our ultimate goal is to expand the market for Taiwanese quality
publications,” he said on the sidelines of the Taipei International Book
Exhibition.

The annual fair, one of the largest in Asia, began on Wednesday and
finishes today.

Lee said that Taiwan’s strength was in producing books with attractive
designs and in its leadership in anticipating market demand.
At the exhibition’s opening ceremony, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) said
Taiwan and China should strengthen their publishing ties.