Legal issues related to E-book business license

Summary: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, December 13 morning, the Amazon China website quietly online the Chinese Kindle Bookstore, the page shows that the store by the online publishing license of Chinese online companies operating. This is probably a letter from the Kindle reader hardware coming into China.

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On the morning of December 13, the Amazon China website quietly launched the Chinese Kindle Bookstore, which shows that the store is run by a Chinese online company with an online publishing license. This is likely to be a sign of the Kindle's hardware coming into China. As Chinese users look forward to, December 14, media reports said that the Kindle bookstore may have been banned by the Chinese press and publication administration to stop: "The Press and publication Administration, the director of Digital publishing in the Department of Technology and Digital publishing, said today in a media interview, Amazon's Kindle store borrowing license to violate regulations. The report also said: The Press and publication administration has been to the Amazon China, Chinese online inquiries, but no specific findings.

Apparently, the company is trying to solve the licensing problem by working with Chinese online companies.

Today I would like to discuss with you the legal issues related to E-book business license.

What is the licence required to operate an ebook?

The issue of E-book qualification is mainly related to the Department of Press and publication Administration regulations. Perhaps because of the rapid development of technology, the most directly related to the book is a legal document that does not even have departmental regulations, the name of the press and publication Administration on the development of the e-book industry according to the 14th, Amazon operates an e-book business involving the editing and distribution of electronic books and sales, Three licenses for publication, distribution and Internet publishing of electronic publications should be obtained.

Before the ebook, the online gaming industry also faced the issue of issuing game clients ' licenses on the Internet. At that time, the network game Enterprise has two kinds of ways to obtain the business license of the network game, have Internet publishing qualification of the online enterprises can directly in the name of the enterprise directly to the Board for approval; The enterprise without the publication qualification can submit the game to the edition department through the Electronic Audio-visual publishing house to approve and obtain the electronic publication version number of the game. But E-book Publishing and online game publishing is different, a network game companies operating up to dozens of games, but also through the publisher to get version number, the cost is not too high. But the issue of e-books involves tens of thousands of books, if no Internet publishing qualification through the publishing house to carry the version of the operation, the money earned to the publishing house is not necessarily enough.

Second, why does Amazon China not apply for a licence directly?

Can Amazon China directly apply for a licence to publish the Internet? The answer is no, Amazon China's shareholders are the United States Amazon, so it belongs to foreign-funded enterprises, according to the Ministry of Commerce, "foreign investment industry Guidance catalogue", the production of audio-visual products and electronic publications business is prohibited foreign access to the field, So the way Amazon China applies for a licence alone is not going to work.

What is the problem with Amazon and Chinese online cooperation?

According to the Amazon website e-book page below the information shows: "The Kindle electronic bookstore from Chinese online to provide operational support, new network card (Beijing) Word No. No. 045." "Chinese online is a licensed business, and it is clear that Amazon China intends to deal with the licensing issue in a way that works with companies." But I personally think, according to its current mode of operation, there are flaws. In the case of the author's use, the Kindle electronic bookstore from the domain name, server space, reading software to the purchase of electronic book payment, the use of Amazon China's services, basic and Chinese online irrelevant, where the operation manifests? The official said that the Amazon China to borrow a license to operate a violation of the provisions of the statement is clearly not entirely without basis. Finally, half a month ago, China's private enterprises millet company withdrew a set-top box products Millet box, the SARFT stopped, the author has written two criticism of the SARFT supervision of the article. This time, the foreign giant Amazon has trouble in the online publishing industry. The Millet box and Kindle Electronic bookstore represent the direction of technology and advanced culture. They have been plagued by administrative supervision, which reflects not their advance, but the backwardness of China's administrative control, and, according to the current system, enterprises can not take these unreasonable regulatory measures for judicial relief, to bring administrative proceedings. The risk is that the government, by monitoring and stifling high-tech new products, will also make our technological and cultural development far behind the world's advanced countries.