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South Korea's Fixed Book Price Policy

South Korea's Fixed Book Price Policy   2019.08.05   Fixed book price policies are rules that set consumer prices for books at levels the publishers select. Countries where these policies exist, sell books at the same price anywhere you go. Instead of competition through prices at the commercial sale level, price competition takes place at the production stage between publishers, boosting the diversity of distribution channels and convenience of readers.The global publishing market is divided into countries that have fixed book prices and those that do not. English speaking countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, which all form one giant market do not have fixed book prices. Non-English-speaking advanced countries like Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Japan all have fixed book prices. Those that do have this policy have diverse ways to enforce it. For example, in Germany and France, the governments have passed special laws for fi...
  • VOL.14 / 2019.08
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Sales of key South Korean bookstores

Sales of key South Korean bookstores   2019.07.08   Today in many countries, online bookstores are a solid part of their publishing distribution networks. Up until the early 1990s, only physical bookstores of varying scale existed and readers' selection of books was based on book displays and how accessible the stores were. However, following the emergence of Amazon in 1995, online bookstores have solidified their position as key sales channels of the publishing industry in countries around the world. That change markedly took place in South Korea compared to other countries.   After online bookstores first emerged in South Korea in 1997, they grew rapidly due to book discounts, with the fixed price policy largely ignored.   Currently, the market share of online bookstores in the United States stands at 45 percent, France 20 percent, Germany 18 percent and Japan 15 percent. In South Korea, that number is higher than 50 percent. South...
  • VOL.13 / 2019.07
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4th Week, January 2024

Best Sellers   4th Week, January 2024 Best seller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2024.02.19   With the start of a new year, the top best sellers for the fourth week of January 2024 gave us a glimpse into what Korean readers chose to start the year with. Most notable was the strong performance of business/management and self-help books, including last year’s favorite, Sayno Love. Also, the No. 3 book, Stock Investment: All About Day-Trading, is by Hong In-Ki, an MZ generation trader who started trading stocks in the second grade of middle school and made 1 billion won from 150,000 won. It contains the know-how of day trading stocks in a way that is easy to understand even for beginners. Coming in at No. 8, Hawaii’s Palace’s 100-Day Miracle is a so-called “challenge book” that helps readers set a mindset for wealth and success, following up with specific actions. The book includes encouraging comments from the writer and s...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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#Start

#K-Book   #Start KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2024.02.19   I’ll Go Step by Step Until I Get There 1. Publication Details   Title | I’ll Go Step by Step Until I Get ThereAuthor | Ra HeedukPublisher | dalpublishersPublication Date | 2017-03-31ISBN | 9791158160586No. of pages | 208Dimensions | 140 * 200   2. Book Intro   Ra Heeduk has put the ordinary landscape of her daily life into words, making them shine as a pearl found in a mudflat. If capturing fleeting moments through one’s own eyes and interpreting all the mysterious things in the world with language is what poets do, they will catch what they see even while walking the trails through their delicate and warm glances.Ra saw the back of an old man walking with a cane, the back of an old woman sitting in the shade, and the back of a couple hugging each other,...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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Agency list

Agency List   Agency list   2024.02.19   Abba Communication Ltd.   Launched as a translation and interpretation agency in 204, Abba Communication (Abba here after) now also acts as a copyright agency. Abba supports young Korean publishers who are aspiring to build experiences in moving on to the international market, providing consultation on the way until they become global. Abba’s special forte is its excellent professional team with expertise in re-writing and/or editing synopses and introductions into texts both competitive and persuasive. Other services Abba provides include translating original materials and creating promotional texts.   Focused Subjects  LiberalArts : Biography, Management, Negotiation   Contacts ? Kim jungsukE-mail : jskim@abbacomm.co.kr / Phone : +82-2-707-2103 / Regions : Asia, UK, USA ? Han-gyul GoE-mail : abba@abbacomm.co.kr / Phone : +82-2-707-21...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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A Diagnosis of South Korea's E-book Market Amid Subscription Competition

A Diagnosis of South Korea's E-book Market Amid Subscription Competition   2019.06.10   On May 9, the Korean Publishers Association held a seminar on current issues that affect the digital publishing industry called 'The Attack of Netflix, Fixed Price System for Books Challenged'. Participants at the seminar debated whether e-book subscription services and the fixed price system for books can co-exist in South Korea. Subscription services refer to online services where members can read an unlimited number of books online after paying low monthly fees, like Netflix. Meanwhile, South Korea's fixed price regulations for book sales prevent bookstores from lowering prices beyond what publishers demand in order to protect small-to-medium sized bookstores and publishers. With the rise of these monthly subscription services, worries have been growing they may shake up the entire fixed price system altogether.The seminar kicked off with an introduction from Chung Won-ok, a senior...
  • VOL.12 / 2019.06
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Publishing Strategies Targeting the MZ Generation

Topic   Publishing Strategies Targeting the MZ Generation   2024.02.19   Disappearance of books and/or readers   Is it the disappearance of books, or is it the disappearance of book readers? Or is it both?According to the National Reading Survey released by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism in South Korea in 2021, the “annual comprehensive reading rates (the percentage of people who read or listened to at least one paperback, e-book, or audiobook)” for adults aged 19 and older was only 47.5%. That is, 1 in 2 adults did not read or listen to a single book during the year. The belief that literacy is proportional to the amount of reading has become a myth. With a basic illiteracy rate of 1%, Korea boasts the highest literacy levels in the world, but the number of books read is plummeting year after year. In other words, it is the age where people no longer read books.However, despite the pessimistic outlook for the publishing ind...
  • VOL.67 / 2024.02
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We Won’t Leave the Earth

New Books   We Won’t Leave the Earth   2024.01.02                       We Won’t Leave the Earth - An action guide on how to make a difference in the age of climate crisis!   In July 2023, the UN Secretary General declared the end of “global warming.” We are now in the era of “global heating,” where the planet is not only warming, but burning.The Earth has become a dying planet with a severe climate crisis. Will we ever be left with no choice but to abandon Earth and move into space?   Ecofeminism Research Center “Moon and Tree” asks it this way: Is there any way to make the planet habitable again?   The writers suggest a game-changing idea for creating a planet where all life can coexist!It is “ecofeminism” - a combination of ecology and feminism.   The era of climate crisis has come due to capitalism, ...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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1st Week, December 2023

Best Sellers   1st Week, December 2023 Bestseller Trends in the Four Biggest Online Bookstores in Korea   2024.01.02   It is the first week of December, 2023, and diligent readers in Korea seem to be preparing for the coming year already. Some popular self-help and humanities titles, such as Trend Korea 2024 and Sayno Love, continue to dominate the integrated bestseller lists with their insights on life, wisdom and wealth.In the meantime, the new titles by Korean literary legend Jo Jung-Rae - Golden Paper 1 and 2 - have been ranked in the top 10, filling the hearts of Korean fiction fans with excitement. Described as a “victory of the writer’s spirit,” Jo, who has devoted his entire life to literature, sharply examines the human desire for money. He captures the raw reality of our society, where people live and die for money, and raises a warning against the dehumanization of the world due to materialism. How about taking a look at the new novels ...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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#Winter

#K-Book   #Winter KPIPA Introduces K-Books for Global Publishing Markets through K-Book Platform 2024.01.02   Snow 1. Publication Details   Title | SnowAuthor | Yoon Jane, Oh SeungminPublisher | NURIMBOPublication Date | 2018-01-17ISBN | 9788958762157No. of pages | 36Dimensions | 210 * 260   2. Book Intro   One snowy day, kids hurriedly run outside with excitement. But the main character from Snow only looks out the window. She has a disability and cannot walk. The grandmother in the story empathizes with her granddaughter and relays a story from her childhood about what she did on a snowy day.After the opening in Snow, we are immediately taken to the Grandmother’s childhood days; a story of one snowy day in the 1950s unfolds with beautiful pictures and text. As the granddaughter listens to her grandmother’s story, she slowly opens up her heart. She says she wan...
  • VOL.66 / 2024.01
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