East China Normal University Press’ newly set-up “Daxia steamer group” was launched in April this year. Their over 50 livestreaming events on Taobao, JD.com, Bilibili and other platforms in the past three months have given them great popularity. Each of their livestreaming event receives around ten thousand thumbs-up on Taobao alone. Under the background of influencer economy, this has become an innovative way for many Chinese publishing houses to explore "online + content", enhancing the publishing brand's long-term user gaining and content operation capability.
(By Sun Jue)
Since March, brick-and-mor-tar bookstores across China have been ex-perimenting the home delivery of books. Before March, China's life service plat-form Meituan has a list of near-ly a thousand bookstores in 150 cities across the country. The fgure rose about 204% in the two months since the launch of "physical bookstores into Meituan" project. In June, a number of pub-lishing houses also started to sell books on ven-dors. Picture showing Jiangxi Fine Arts Publishing House selling books at the 699 Cultural and Cre-ative Park in Nanchang City.
(By Wen Peiying)
On August 12, the Shanghai Book Fair held the 2019 "The Most Beautiful Book" Award Ceremony, in which 25 titles stand out and represented China in this year’s "World’s Most Beautiful Book Award" held in Leipzig, Germany. In the end, Viewing - Philosophy of Habitat designed by Nanjing designer Pan Yanrong and published by Shanghai Ancient Book Publishing House, won the bronze medal. This is the 21st award won by Chinese books in the arena of the "World’s Most Beautiful Book" competition.
(By Mu Hongzhi)