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1) De Gruyter Signs Partnership Agreement with the Chinese Publisher
Commercial Press
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Message #1:
Subject: PRESS RELEASE: De Gruyter Signs Partnership Agreement with the
Chinese Publisher Commercial Press, Establishing Strategic Partnership
for Shared Content
From: <Ulrike.Lippe@degruyter.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:05:41 +0200
PRESS RELEASE
DE GRUYTER
De Gruyter Signs Partnership Agreement with the Chinese Publisher
Commercial Press,
Establishing Strategic Partnership for Shared Content
Berlin, 29 August 2012 – De Gruyter has entered into a strategic
partnership with Commercial Press, a renowned Chinese publisher in the
humanities and social sciences. The partnership agreement, which is
effective immediately, provides for the intensive exchange of academic
content between the two publishing houses.
Commercial Press will translate selected works from De Gruyter's
portfolio into Chinese and distribute them in the Chinese market. De
Gruyter, for its part, will license titles of international interest
from Commercial Press in order to produce English editions. These titles
will be added to De Gruyter's English portfolio and offered
internationally in both print and digital form.
"We are extremely pleased by this new cooperative agreement. Commercial
Press is an excellent partner for top-rung academic content and, like De
Gruyter, is willing to invest in this quality," said Vice President of
Publishing Anke Beck, who heads up De Gruyter's activities in China.
"The first fruits of this partnership for De Gruyter include The
Language Atlas of China, The Language Situation in China, as well as
several academic journals. De Gruyter is looking forward to offering
these publications to an international readership." Commercial Press is
already working on translating selected titles from De Gruyter's highly
esteemed philosophy portfolio. These titles will become part of a series
of Western classics that is known beyond China's borders.
Founded in 1897, Commercial Press publishes over 1200 new titles each
year in a variety of fields, including philosophy, linguistics, and law.
As the publisher of the premier dictionary of the Chinese language – a
publication that has sold over 40 million copies – Commercial Press is
one of China's most well-known publishing houses. Commercial Press is a
founding member of the China Publishing Group.
"For us, the partnership with Commercial Press means more than just the
licensing of titles," said Sven Fund, Managing Director of De Gruyter.
"As equal partners, De Gruyter and Commercial Press are committed to
sharing content in close collaboration with each other while also
initiating joint projects."
Contact
Ulrike Lippe
Public Relations Manager
Telephone +49 030 260 05 153
ulrike.lippe@degruyter.com
De Gruyter: The academic publishing house De Gruyter can look back on a
history spanning over 260 years. The Berlin-based group of companies
releases over 800 new titles each year in the fields of medicine, the
humanities, natural sciences, and law, in addition to more than 500
journals and digital media publications. www.degruyter.com
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