To join hands to fight ‘photocopy’ pirates

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Although there have been many inspections and checks to detect large stores of pirated books but still haven't solved this situation thoroughly. Even this type of book is increasingly sophisticated, circulated on social networks and very difficult to control, which annoying not only in the publishing industry but also in the fight against fake and counterfeit goods of the State management agencies.

 Many reasons for increase in pirated books

For books of Dong Nai General Publishing House, the field of illegally published books falls into the following category: Children's books, textbooks/school books and reference books. As for literature books, there are not many outstanding works; Or cultural, historical and geographic books, which are not attractive enough, therefore, the issues of fake books has not been recorded.

“The children's book array with the Trang Quynh comic series published by Dong Nai General Publishing House more than 400 episodes has been widely published throughout the country. Recently, we have discovered the illegal printing of this series in Da Nang and some western provinces. Dong Nai General Publishing House has written and directly worked with functional agencies of the above provinces to coordinate and handle this issue” - Mr. Tuan shared.

Fake books and pirated books on the market today have a lot of errors, especially unclear images, blurred, thin and bad papers. If readers accidentally buy this kind of book, they will be disadvantaged because of this type of poor quality products. And authors who are often counterfeited or illegally printed do not get royalties, etc. Therefore, to prevent such piracy, it is necessary to join hands with the publishers and the whole society, especially in the time of providing books for summer service and preparing for new school year.

Deputy Director of Dong Nai Publishing House Truong Van Tuan said there are many reasons for the rise in piracy. Because of high profits without paying taxes, royalties, royalties , etc., many people are willing to participate in the network of printing and distributing pirated books. Besides, due to the sanctions for this behavior are still too slight which not enough to deter criminals, also the publishing management agencies have not been resolute. In particular, there is an abettal from individuals, book publishers as well as a part of readers due to not being aware of the deep harm, or buying cheap pirated books.

 Methods to prevent fake and pirated books

Also according to Mr. Truong Van Tuan, in order to prevent fake books and pirated books, the coordination between publishers, authors and publishing management agencies now needs to be further strengthened. Besides, it is necessary to improve the process of making books to increase the efficiency and quality of publications while reducing the price so that fake books no longer have an opportunity to increase. In addition, the government should actively propagate on the mass media to people of all classes so that readers are cautious when buying and choosing books and say “No!” to piracy, which is also a way for them to protect their own rights.

Publishing, distribution and censorship is one of the most important stages in the publication to bring readers works containing high humanity. Of course, this work in publishing houses is even more important because they are the “gatekeepers” in the ability to read, review and perceive the work in the direction of cognitive perception. This issue requires competence, intelligence, bravery as well as fairness, objectivity, initiative and acumen of full-time officials and editors - who are considerate and responsive to the requirements of State management of this sensitive field.

Thanh Thanh