About Michelle
I work in the rights department of Bright Books.
The name of the Guangzhou Bright Book Publishing & Distributing Co., Ltd. (GBBPDC) should be the Guangzhzou Kai Xin Book Publishing & Distributing Co., Ltd. if translated literally. Kai Xin means making somebody happy and bright in the Chinese language, and named after so, GBBPDC has always had as its motto the following phrase: Let happiness accompany its readers all the time and help them increase their wisdom in a happy way. Established in Guangzhou (Canton) in south China’s Guangdong Province in 1999 and specializing in the production and distribution of books that aid primary and middle school students in their efforts to improve their reading, apprehension and composition, GBBPDC has made it to the top of ten national publishers and distributors of similar kind across China, with its sales income reaching an aggregate of five hundred million Chinese yuan or eighty million US dollars in 2011. It has had the greatest market share in terms of books on reading, apprehension and composition for students across the country since 2007 according to a national market research company named Open Book.
GBBPDC started to set foot in literary books for children and young adults in 2010, and for this business a new branch company was established in the provincial city of Changsha, Hunan Province, also in south China. Though having only two years of experience in this field, GBBPDC has produced a number of bestselling series for young readers. Among other books, the “Easy to-Read and Easy-to-Understand Classic Books Series,” which is comprised of well-known works such as The Thousand and One Night, The Wizard of Oz, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, has grossed twenty-eight thousand copies each in sales.
To edit and publish more books that will be liked and loved by young readers, contracts have been signed with a number of famous authors in China, such as Tang Sulan, Guang Jiaqi, Bingbo, Zhang Qiusheng and Fan Xilin, and twenty-nine titles have been published to date and more than twenty thousand copies have sold each. Early in 2012, another series entitled “”Graded Readers” came out. Consisting of forty-five famous titles such as Aesop's Fables, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Secret Garden, and Robinson Crusoe, the series has received favorable comments from students and teachers and its sales have averaged fifteen thousand copies each.
GBBPDC launched a new project towards the end of 2012, and that is to purchase copyrighted books from authors who have won the Hans Christian Andersen Award since the award was initiated in 1956. To make its work of high quality and competent, a number of well-known writers and consultants such as Ren Rongrong, Jin Bo, Wang Quangen and Zhu Ziqiang have been invited to lend it a helping hand in terms of title-choosing, editing, printing and selling expertise. GBBPDC believes they will do a good job of it, making itself stronger felt inside and outside China. In doing business with its foreign counterparts, GBBPDC promises that it will abide by China’s relevant laws and regulations and international copyright conventions to which China has acceded as well we as all the agreements it has signed with its clients. GBBPDC hopes to create famous brands of its own in the near future, establishing and maintaining lasting cooperation with more foreign publishing and literary firms on the basis of equality and mutual interests, thus making greats contributions in the development of world publishing industry.
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I work in the rights department of Bright Books.
The name of the Guangzhou Bright Book Publishing & Distributing Co., Ltd. (GBBPDC) should be the Guangzhzou Kai Xin Book Publishing & Distributing Co., Ltd. if translated literally. Kai Xin means making somebody happy and bright in the Chinese language, and named after so, GBBPDC has always had as its motto the following phrase: Let happiness acco...
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