Squeezed by commercial and political pressures, China’s book publishers face an existential crisis.
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In 2020, one of China’s leading private sector book publishers, Beijing Motie Book, bought the Chinese-language rights to Invent and Wander, The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos. Motie thought the book was perfectly timed for the Chinese market. The Amazon founder was then the world’s richest man and his Chinese technology billionaire peers were also riding high.
The Chinese-language version of Jeff Bezos' book I
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