8 publishers issued the first statement, aimed at the entire electric business

Resistance is not the first time

Recently, Peking University Press, Electronic industry publishing house, Tsinghua University Press and other eight issued a joint statement said, "Recently, a small number of bookstores in the book promotional activities in the books in order to sell below the price of the sale of books to the market, in violation of the relevant national laws and regulations, damage the interests of the publishing house, the book market Therefore, "Eight publishing houses will jointly punish the bookstore for dumping books below the purchase price, and the measures are not limited to suspending new book shipments and terminating sales contracts." ”

This resistance has not been the first time, the domestic publishing house has repeatedly on the sale of books to express dissatisfaction. They believe that some of the electricity dealers below the cost price sales, led to the online dumping trend, has endangered the survival of the industry, seriously deteriorating the publishing market environment. Last May, the Chinese children's publishing house and other national 24 children's Publishing house issued a joint statement, sternly condemned a certain electric dealer to 40 percent sales of children's books infringing the interests of the publishing house, and said not to exclude the use of legal means rights.

As traditional bookstore sites are increasingly swallowed up by online bookstores, some traditional book dealers are protesting "unfair behavior" by publishers.

At present, on the electric Dealer website, some books price has been low to 30 percent-40 percent, although the reader applauded, but the publishing house because of the interest damage to be greatly annoyed.

Some experts say, on the one hand, the book publishing itself has a virtual high price phenomenon, on the other hand, the electric business channel because of the popularity and more and more strong, stirring the traditional book distribution system, the content provider and the power of the channel of interest game will be long-term.