Xinhua: China cracks down on fake books

From Xinhua – English:

“No Excuse,” a book published by the Machinery Industry Press, has an eye-catching book review from the New York Times and high-profile information about the author on its cover.

The book is about Western management theory and methods – a popular topic for the publishing industry in China today. It topped the selling list for several months and sold about 2 million copies in China last year.

But until the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) began to make serious moves to crack down on “fake books” recently, few Chinese readers realized the bestseller was a fake, with scrabbled contents, a forged name and fabricated publication information.