In August, the World Trade Organization (WTO) decided in favor of the United States in a dispute over the sale of American films, books and music in China.
Today, China has appealed the decision, however the documents are not public as of yet.
The ruling had pitted China against the US, over China’s internal decision to force American products to be routed through state-owned companies. Over the past decade China has limited the amount of foreign products that enter the Chinese market, while at the same time exporting the most goods and creating a gigantic surplus.
The August decision was almost completely in favor of the US and its complaining parties, Warner Bros., Disney, Paramount, Universal, 20th Century Fox, EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, McGraw Hill and Simon & Schuster.
The WTO agreed rules were being broken, but did not agree with the US on the argument that the censorship was slowing sales in the nation.
The appellate ruling is not expected until January.
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Amazon has announced that it will be making 5,000 more books available for its popular e-reader device Kindle, adding to the already 120,000 downloadable titles available.
The new titles are available thanks to a recent deal struck by Amazon and the large book publisher Simon & Schuster.
At last week’s BookExpo America convention, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos continued to praise the Kindle and the benefits of electronic books. “That’s one of the great things about electronic books. They don’t go out of stock.” His statement came in response to the recently sold out title “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.” People want it, but it is sold out everywhere.
The Kindle was launched last November and now accounts for over 6 percent of the site’s total book sales. Amazon says it expects that number to increase significantly over the next few years.
