Mon 12 Mar 2007
Write a book about China?
Posted by Kim Schiefer under experiences in China, Foreign media on China
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Recently, another German publishing house asked me to join a book project about China. No payment, but I would get a percentage of the turnover. As basis for the book, they suggested just copying a part of www.chinaseite.de, the German version of our China Portal.
Of course I rejected this offer again.
If books about China are always written like this (just copy from somewhere, without checking the content again) – no wonder, that so many wrong information about China are published in the western press.
On Chinaorbit, we do lots of research before publishing an article, but I really would not like to see this website as book, where you can not correct any mistakes – especially, when I only have one or two month to finish the book, like in the offer I got by this publishing house.
