SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s e-book market has been growing while the wider book industry is shrinking, a recent report from a government agency showed Monday. The report by the Publication Industry Agency of Korea about the general condition of the country’s publishing industry showed the industry’s total sales amounted to 7.58 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Kyobo Books announced on September 23 that it revamped its bestseller ranking system to eradicate the habit of stockpiling books to be listed as bestsellers in the publishing industry. The Korea’s biggest bookstore decided to include the cumulative sales volume to overcome shortcomings of the current ranking system, which is [...]
![[Kobiz Feature] Companies Getting Serious about Book Reading among Their Employees](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2539452694_a409178fb3_z.jpg "[Kobiz Feature] Companies Getting Serious about Book Reading among Their Employees")
SEOUL, Korea, Nov 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Books allow readers to live someone else’s life and thereby broaden their minds. Even Socrates said 25 centuries ago, “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” But today the number of people who read regularly [...]