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How Book Club Platforms Captivate Readers

Topic   How Book Club Platforms Captivate Readers   2024.03.11   It is the age of communities. From sneaker manufacturers to franchise cafes, companies are putting as much effort into building communities as they are into making things. Gathering loyal fans in one place to generate buzz and feedback has become a proven business strategy in an environment where we are bombarded with information and products. The publishing industry is no exception. Publishers and bookstores are opening cafes and book clubs, creating apps, and publishing newsletters. They reward book club members with exclusive editions of books and merchandise to give them a sense of belonging, or even let them choose the cover design of a new book.Beyond the business strategy of the publishing industry, the importance of book-reading communities is growing every day in the overall book culture ecosystem. There is something contagious about people’s activities. If you are surround...
  • VOL.68 / 2024.03
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Korean Libraries’ Various Book-reading Activities and Cooperation Efforts with the Publishing Industry

Publishing Industry   Korean Libraries’ Various Book-reading Activitiesand Cooperation Efforts with the Publishing Industry   2023.11.06         Libraries are public service organizations that are easily accessible to anyone in their daily lives when it comes to reading activities. The Korean Library Act also defines a library as a place that contributes to the promotion of reading culture based on library materials. After the Korean government designated 1993 as the “Year of Books,” the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and publishing organizations carried out vigorous campaigns to promote reading among the public. They pushed for the enactment of the “Reading Promotion Act (tentative title)” as a basis for more systematic and continuous promotion. In the process, as discussions progressed with the library co...
  • VOL.64 / 2023.11
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Today and Tomorrow of the Korean Standard Publishing Distribution Data Hub System

Publishing Industry   Today and Tomorrow of the Korean Standard Publishing Distribution Data Hub System   2023.09.04         Current status of the Korean Standard Publishing Distribution Data Hub System (KOPDS)   When Song-In Books, a large South Korean book wholesaler, went bankrupt in 2017, many publishers were left in a state of chaos. Publishers suffered a lot of losses because they were unable to keep track of which books were in which bookstores, and how many copies were in stock and sold. This prompted the creation of the Korean Standard Publishing Distribution Data Hub System (KOPDS), which was built in accordance with the Fourth Five-Year Plan for the Promotion of Publishing Culture, reflecting the need to build an advanced distribution system for the publishing industry. The system was launched in Sept...
  • VOL.62 / 2023.09
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How are Regional Publishers in Korea Thriving?

Publishing Industry   How are Regional Publishers in Korea Thriving? Cooperation of local publishers seen through the Somewhere, Someone series   2023.03.13         I’m living in a village by the ocean in Goseong County, Gangwon-do Province. The first thing I do in the morning is take a walk on the shore in front of the village with my dog. Once I reach the shore, I take off the leash for him to move around freely, and check orders from bookstores on a number of applications. Sometimes, I sit in a corner, enter the logistics website, and start my morning work. Spending 3-4 minutes typing in the number of books and the name of the warehouse for the day is the most important task. Then, I put my dog back on the leash again, and head home.This was a dream 10 years back. Back then, the facsimile in one corner of the publishi...
  • VOL.56 / 2023.03
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KPIPA hosts the 2023 Visiting Korean Book Fair

Publishing Policy   KPIPA hosts the 2023 Visiting Korean Book Fair   2023.03.13                   Meet K-Book Content Outside Korea! - The Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA) hosts the 2023 Visiting Korean Book Fair   KPIPA has been running the Visiting Book Fair with an aim to expand the export of K-Book content, reinforce global competitiveness and support its advancement into new overseas markets, taking a step forward from the current export market limited to certain languages.   The Visiting Korean Book Fair primarily supports the export of Korean publishing content through online video conferences with new international market participants and local B2B book fairs.   Host regions and schedule for 2023 Country(Region) Japan(Asia) France(Europe) Thailand(Southe...
  • VOL.56 / 2023.03
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New Approaches to Education in the Korean Publishing Industry

Publishing Industry   New Approaches to Education in the Korean Publishing Industry “It will work out somehow, as we’ve started!”   2023.01.02   The Foundation of the Book Publishing Industry in Korea   There are a great many publishing houses in Korea. The number exceeds 70 thousand or falls to 2 thousand depending on how you approach the term “publishing.” Either way, the number is still quite a lot. The reason for this is that Korea has a very simple procedure for setting up a publishing company. All you have to do is declare your company type as “publishing” when registering it. As of the end of last year, the number of firms that reported their type as “publishing” to the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism was 71,319, including newspaper and magazine publishers. Among them, 2,026 were “general book publishers (paper media publishing).”1) The number increased to 2,7112) in the report issued in 2019. Also, the Publish...
  • VOL.54 / 2023.01
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MCST Announces the 2022-2026 Publishing Industry Promotion Plan

Publishing Industry   MCST Announces the 2022-2026 PublishingIndustry Promotion Plan Fostering K-Culture through Books and Building a Cultural Powerhouse through Publishing   2022.11.07   “Books” are the core content that has been with humanity for a long period of time. However, the domain of each type of content and the boundary between them have become unclear these days. Today, publishers are not just coming up with publishable content, but are expanding their business into e-books and audiobooks, not to mention other cultural fields such as the film, game, and music industries. As such, the publishing industry takes on different content-based roles, crossing the traditional frontier of “print books.”However, unlike the diversified channels for publishing content, readership is falling every year. People now prefer video services like TV, YouTube, and Netflix rather than books. The average annual percentage of Koreans reading books is 47.5...
  • VOL.52 / 2022.11
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Types of Korean Magazines based on Keywords

Publishing Industry   Types of Korean Magazines based on Keywords   2022.05.02   "The child plays because it plays. Reason does not exist in its play. (The editor-in-chief of Magazine B Tiktok)." This is a quote from Heidegger. Unlike books, magazines are like amusement parks as it is hard to expect what will unfold in the following pages. That is why it is okay to replace the word magazine with play from Heidegger's quote. A brand magazine Magazine B quoted Heidegger. The gap is the fun in magazines. Magazines neutralize the differences and show the unexpected of the world unpredictably.I used to work at a weekly magazine publisher. Once, I heard the president of a magazine publisher say, "You refer to books the most as you write one." So, likewise, magazines are what you refer to as you write one.The ones who visit The Magazine Club, a magazine bookstore located in Hapjeong-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, are primarily editors. The co-founder of The Magaz...
  • VOL.46 / 2022.05
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Reviews, Review Journals, and the New Review Culture

Publishing Industry   Reviews, Review Journals, and the New Review Culture   2021.12.06   More than 80,000 books are published each year. It means that about 200 books are released in the market every day. Some become bestsellers, and some vanish from the shelves in a few days. People that are "sincere" about reading books lose their way in the piles of new books, trying to figure out which book is good to read. Some people wait for the book column in a newspaper, some listen to book introductions on TV or radio, and some nod their head to the fancy wordplay of book-tubers on YouTube. However, as there is no appropriate or trustable guide, many readers feel as if they are trapped in Daedalus' Maze. Besides, there are voices arguing that there's actually no book to read, for there's no water to drink in a flood.   Recently in Korea, a small seed of hope has sprung up, that the new review culture will arrive, centered around a number of review journals.  ...
  • VOL.41 / 2021.12
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The Current State of Subscription-Based Services of Korea’s Published Content

Publishing Industry   The Current State of Subscription-Based Services of Korea’s Published Content   2021.10.05   Mobile phones provide convenience as they can be used to write or read while on the move. There have been quite a lot of changes in how books, music, movies, dramas, games, and other content are created and consumed. There has also been an increase in the different types of content distribution models that use a variety of smart devices and social network systems. The major examples of this would be short-form content, which you can use for a short period, and subscriptions for sale, through which you can have unlimited access to content depending on the subscription period. The content industry is quickly transferring from a generation of “owning” to “consuming” worldwide. With the rapid increase of consumers of many contents due to the COVID-19 pandemic, renting content and subscribing to content has successfully settled as popular mass cont...
  • VOL.39 / 2021.10
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